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Beans and Brahmins: Boston in the Gilded Age
The Gilded Age was not limited to New York. While New York was unquestionably the center of financial and social power, other cities developed differently during the 19th…
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Victoria Woodhull was one of the Gilded Age's most challenging, revolutionary, outspoken, and certainly fascinating figures. Considered by some to be the first woman to run for President, she also worked as a spiritualist, newspaper publisher, and, along with…
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Buying and Selling the News in the Gilded Age
Join Michael Morgenthal, veteran journalist, writer, and professional tour guide, for this journey through the news process of late 19th-century New York. Michael shares how the Gilded Age…
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Alias Agnes: The Notorious Tale of a Gilded Age Spy
In 1894, Madeline Pollard was the most famous woman in America. Her name was splashed across newspaper headlines, and the public hung on every word she…
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Agatha Christie and the English Country House
An isolated house, creaky staircases, hidden passages and often a dead body in the Library. These all seem to be elements of the classic British murder…
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The Women of Tiffany: Agnes Northrop and Clara Driscoll
Louis Comfort Tiffany truly gave the Gilded Age a new way to see the world. Through his career, beginning as a painter and developing an expansive business…
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Celebrating ‘Little House on the Prairie’ with Alison Arngrim (Nellie Oleson)
As Netflix launches a new adaptation of the beloved Laura Ingalls Wilder series "Little House on the Prairie" this summer, fans new and old cannot help…