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While gilded ceilings and furnishings are coated in gold, appearing shiny and luxurious, they serve as a metaphor for the ...
Newport offered rare opportunities for Black prosperity and dignity during the Gilded Age. How much did the show get right?
When The Gilded Age first hit screens with its corseted drama and architectural grandeur, it promised more than just a glimpse behind the heavy drapes of New York’s elite.
The city’s long-standing connection to Black affluence and entrepreneurship is the focus of the latest season of HBO’s The ...
New York City's Fifth Avenue was once home to "Millionaires' Row," where the wealthiest business tycoons of the Gilded Age built palatial homes.
The Gilded Age of the late-19th and early-20th centuries displays prominent parallels to the Trump administration’s coziness with the billionaire class, with one caveat.
The displays of wealth and power at the recent weddings of billionaires, like Bezos-Sánchez's nuptials, are a callback to the Gilded Age.
If you can't get enough of the beautiful costumes, glittering high society, and scheming of 'The Gilded Age,' this is your ultimate movie watchlist.
HBO’s The Gilded Age, which was created by Downton Abbey’s Julian Fellowes, has truly captured audiences season after season.
Bertha drives Billy Carlton away so Gladys can marry the Duke, Marian and Larry get frisky, and Ada wants everyone to go straightedge in The Gilded Age Season 3 Episode 2.
It is monopolistic. Some argue extreme wealth inequality is not a problem for the US; history tells us otherwise. Rugged individualism is an enduring American myth.
In “Stan and Gus,” Henry Wiencek explores the creative highs and private peccadilloes of the architect Stanford White and the ...