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The Real Mrs. Astor
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…
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#108
Queen of Denver: The Life and Times of Louise Sneed Hill
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…
#107
Frederick Douglass’s Gilded Age
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…
#106
John Singer Sargent and Paris: The Path to Madame X
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…
#105
Augustus Saint-Gaudens: Sculptor of the Gilded Age
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…
#100
Belle Da Costa Greene: The Untold Story of J.P. Morgan’s Personal Librarian
As the Librarian of Gilded Age financier J.P. Morgan's extraordinary personal collection of rare books, manuscripts, and historical objects, Belle Da Costa Greene was one of the…
#99
John Singer Sargent: Painting a Gilded Age Love Story
She was a Gilded Age society beauty. He was a New York architect passionate about preserving the city’s past. When John Singer Sargent accepted the commission to paint their portrait as…
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Bradley Martin Ball
Of all the balls and parties thrown during the Gilded Age, the extravagant evening hosted by Bradley and Cornelia Martin at the Waldorf in 1897 was perhaps the…
#96
New York’s Grace Church: Gilded Age Society’s Most Fashionable Church (Bowery Boys Archive)
Grace Church, a soaring neo-Gothic church built in 1846 still sits today at the famous bend in Broadway at 11th Street. Throughout the 19th century it was in many…
#91
The Ghost Stories of Henry James and Edith Wharton
Along with their acclaimed novels and short works of fiction, Henry James and Edith Wharton both extensively explored the genre of the ghost story. Ghost stories along with the fiction of the Victorian…
#90
Children of the Gilded Age: Seen and Not Heard (Until Now)
Stories of the Gilded Age so often focus on the world of adults and more often on the highest layer of elite society. Of course, there was…
#87
Summer with Queen Victoria: Life at Osborne House
In this special episode created in partnership with English Heritage, Carl is joined by curator Christopher Warleigh-Lack for a look at the once royal residence of Osborne House on England’s Isle…