A Podcast by Carl Raymond
The height of the Gilded Age brought about the birth and rise of tabloid journalism. Newspapers competed with each other for the most sensational headlines and scandalous stories.…
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…
As "Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale", the new feature film, opens worldwide, we see perhaps for the final time the elegant, glamorous, and always dramatic world of Lord and…
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…
One of the anxiously followed storylines in HBO's "The Gilded Age" has been the love story between Oscan van Rhijn and John Adams. Born into a prestigious New York family and…
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…
We all have our favorite characters in HBO's "The Gilded Age," and one fan favorite is certainly the maid-turned-social climber, now Mrs. Joshus Winterton, formerly Enid Turner. It's…
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…
From its earliest days as one of the most significant ports for the 18th-century slave trade to the late 19th-century years of the Gilded Age, Newport, Rhode…
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…