In Our Time

The American Populists

In Our Time ›

49:52 | Jun 15th, 2017

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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss what, in C19th America's Gilded Age, was one of the most significant protest movements since the Civil War with repercussions well into C20th. Farmers in the South and ...Show More



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epekilis recommended:Nov 6th, 2017

Was completely unaware of the Populist reform movement of the 1890s. It’s intimately linked with Jim Crow laws but also delinking $US from gold standard. Wizard of Oz was a populist allegory. Am I the only who didn’t know that?

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