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Blogs Cliopatria Susan Pearson: Sentimental Liberalism in Gilded Age America

Mar 30, 2009

Susan Pearson: Sentimental Liberalism in Gilded Age America

by Cliopatria

The History News Network recorded this video excerpt of Professor Susan Pearson's talk at the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians on March 26, 2009 in Seattle, WA.

The title of his topic:"The Rights of the Defenseless": Sentimental Liberalism in Gilded Age America