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A Toast for the New Year: Gilded Age Cocktails with Don Spiro
Don Spiro, a vintage beverage specialist and one of the Gilded Gentleman's most popular guests, presents a fascinating history of cocktails in the 19th century, leading up…
Episodes
A New Year in Old New York with the Bowery Boys
A rite of passage for many New Yorkers (and visitors alike) is to spend New Year's Eve in Times Square patiently awaiting the moment when the crystal-studded…
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Hot Victorian Holiday (Bowery Boys History Live at City Winery)
As a special holiday bonus treat, join Greg Young of the Bowery Boys for this fun, festive look at some "hot history". Greg is joined by Carl Raymond of The Gilded Gentleman, Aaron…
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Inside “Ragtime”: The Return of an American Musical Epic
For many, the hit of Broadway's current season is the revival of the Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens (book by Terrence McNally, based on the novel by…
#119
The Gilded Age Christmas Cookbook with author Becky Diamond
Food historian and author Becky Diamond returns to the show to share some insight into celebrating Christmas Gilded Age style. During the 19th century, celebrations began to evolve from the once…
#118
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…
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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…
Encore
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.…
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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…