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Willa Cather’s Gilded Age
Willa Cather, the beloved American novelist who lived during the height of America's Gilded Age, is perhaps best known for her insightful, passionate writing about life on…
Episodes
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Policing the Gilded City: Law and Order in 19th-century New York
As New York grew throughout the 19th century from once just the island of Manhattan to ultimately encompassing five unique boroughs, crime grew with the burgeoning population. Early…
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The First Thief from the Louvre (10/24/25)
On October 19, 2025, the world was shocked to hear of a theft or priceless jewels from Paris' The Louvre in a brazen, daylight heist. But this was not…
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The Scandalous Hamiltons: The True Crime That Shocked The Gilded Age
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.…
#115
Oscar Wilde on Dress: A New Discovery
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…
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Ulysses S. Grant: A Preside on the Edge of the Gilded Age
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…
#113
The Fashion and Hair of Downton Abbey
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…
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The Butler Speaks: Simon Jones (Bannister on HBO’s “The Gilded Age”)
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…
#112
Gay in the Gilded Age with Claybourne Elder
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…
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Alva Vanderbilt: The Real Bertha Russell?
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…
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The Gilded Age’s Kelley Curran: Playing Mrs. Winterton
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…
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Who Was Ward McAllister?
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…