A Podcast by Carl Raymond
In 2013, independent scholar, author and Wilde specialist, John Cooper made a surprising discovery. While researching aspects of Oscar Wilde's famous 1882 American lecture tour, he came upon a lengthy article written…
Ulysses S. Grant was one of the most important and influential of America's presidents. not only for his role in winning the Civil War but in how he began to…
Butlers, it seems, know everything. They are privy to the goings on above and below stairs and, of course, keep it -- mostly -- to themselves. Agnes van Rhijn's very British…
Ever since the premiere episode of HBO's "The Gilded Age", viewers and historians have discussed just how close the fictitious character of Bertha Russell (played by Carrie Coon) may be to the real-life…
The famous Mrs. Astor was credited with building and shaping the Gilded Age elite. At her side and combining forces with her to create “the 400” was…
Mamie Fish, the eagle-eyed, sharp-tongued social arbiter who regularly appears in the HBO series "The Gilded Age" was indeed a real Gilded Age socialite. She was known for her incisive wit…
During the late 19th century, nearly 200 wealthy young American women were caught up in marriages with members of British and European nobility. The goal of…
Join historian Tom Miller of Daytonian in Manhattan for an insightful look at just who Caroline Astor really was. Aside from her very public role as self-imposed leader of New York's Gilded Age…
The Gilded Age was by no means simply an East Coast phenomenon. Wealth, position, and social structure evolved across the country as railroads and improved technology…
The life of Frederick Douglass, the great 19th-century statesman, orator, writer and abolitionist, was a triumphantly American story. He was born into slavery in the early years…
Join Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Stephanie Herdrich as she joins Carl for this in-depth look at how the career and personal life of Gilded Age artist John Singer…
Irish-born Augustus Saint-Gaudens came to this country as a small child and throughout his career and life, reaching into the early years of the 20th century, became an…