Grade 11

 
Assembly line workers inside the Ford Motor Company factory at Dearborn, Michigan
An Age of Realism

Experience the realities of a changing nation.





Looking down a long, dark, back alley

Muckraking Journalist Jacob Riis and Gilded Age New York City

Source: C-SPAN

This lecture by Professor Daniel Czitrom from Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts gives an overview of Jacob Riis. Watch the clips at the following marks for a look at some of Riis’s work and to get a sense of his purpose and relevance today: 20:38–25:10, 36:35–38:40, 45:02–47:35, and 50:56–52:16.

















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