[Play-conférence] Red Dead Redemption 2 : L'Amérique de 1899

1899. The United States had recovered from the American Civil War and, within a few decades, had become a leading industrial power. The railway had reshaped the landscape, which was now characterised by rapidly expanding cities; factories were operating at full capacity; and colossal fortunes were being amassed. This was the Gilded Age: a veneer masking a harsher reality. For behind this prosperity, American society was riven by deep divisions. Workers and immigrants were crammed into the cities, Native Americans were dispossessed of their lands and, in the South, segregation was imposed on African Americans, barely more than thirty years after the abolition of slavery. During this dramatised lecture, immerse yourself in an America undergoing profound change, set against the backdrop of the video game Red Dead Redemption 2. Guided by Sidonie Gomont, a history lecturer and PhD student specialising in US history, prepare to be surprised by the end of the American Gilded Age.