Gilded Age

people

Alva Vanderbilt, born Alva Erskine Smith in 1853, was an American heiress and social figure whose wealth originated from her father, Murray Forbes Smith, a successful merchant i...

Celebrity Profiles

Bertha Russell was an American socialite and philanthropist active in New York and Newport high society during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As the wife of...

Relationships & Society

Gilded Age weddings—stretching roughly from the 1870s into the early 1900s—reflected a society in transition, where new industrial wealth met older elite traditions. These c...

television

The season finale of Gilded Age delivers on its dramatic promise by resolving several narrative threads while advancing the show’s core conflicts. The episode intercuts betwee...

Hobbies & Interests

Gilded Age Jack Trotter clock refers to decorative verge or spring-driven timekeepers made in the United States circa 1870–1910, named for the folkloric automaton figure whose...

Celebrity Profiles

The Gilded Age, roughly spanning the 1870s to 1900, was a period of striking contrasts in the United States, defined by rapid industrial expansion, immense aggregated wealth, an...

history-explainer

During the post-Civil War decades often called the Gilded Age, rapid industrial expansion created concentrated wealth, systemic corruption, and volatile labor conflict that are...

Celebrity Profiles

The term Gladys portrait Gilded Age most often refers to a painted likeness of a woman named Gladys created during the late 19th century United States, a period defined by rapid...

literature & literary criticism

Literature in the Gilded Age refers to American writing produced roughly between the 1870s and the turn of the twentieth century, a period of rapid industrialization, urban grow...

general-aviation

The phrase "Gilded Age air time" combines a named historical era with a modern concept, prompting questions about what travel looked like during the late 19th and early 20th cen...