H. W. Brands, the Dickson Allen Anderson Centennial Professor of History and Government at The University of Texas at Austin (UT), delivers a talk on the Gilded Age on June 5, 2011, at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library in Austin, Texas. Brands’s presentation was the keynote address of The Making of Modern America, a teacher institute cosponsored by Humanities Texas, UT’s College of Liberal Arts, and the LBJ Library.
