History of the United States II / Unit 4 USH2 0473 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Upper Class
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The idea
The wealthy built their own cultural world: the Metropolitan Museum of Art opened in eighteen seventy-two and Carnegie Hall in eighteen ninety-one.
In practice
The Social Register, first published by Louis Keller in eighteen eighty-six, listing the city's elite families.
Where people slip
New money sought acceptance by old money, and the Register decided who belonged. Leisure divided the city by class.
Your place on the trail
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