The Greatest Gilded Age Costume Ever Made (coming 10/27/26)
Outdoing one another was a kind of sport for some in the Gilded Age, who had the grandest home, could throw the most outrageous party, and…
Episodes
Ghost Stories by Gaslight with the Bowery Boys
Join Greg Young and Tom Meyers of the Bowery Boys for this spooky journey back to Old New York, a gaslit city where so much happened…
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Battlefields to Ballrooms: How the Civil War Influenced the Gilded Age
Returning guest historian and author Connor Williams returns to The Gilded Gentleman table for an in-depth, insightful discussion of the Civil War's influence on the Gilded Age, an…
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Creating Victoria Woodhull: Gilded Age Presidential Candidate 1872
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…
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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…
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…
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The Mansion that Launched the Gilded Age: Lockwood-Matthews Mansion
It's easy to conjure images of the high Gilded Age when seeing the great mansions of Newport or elsewhere, but the origins of that grand flamboyant…
Encore
Summer Gardens of the Gilded Age
As grand mansions and country houses were built during America's Gilded Age, an integral part of any estate design was an equally grand and impressive garden. Drawing on European traditions,…