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The Gilded Gentleman
The Gilded Gentleman history podcast takes listeners on a cultural and social journey into the mansions, salons, dining rooms, libraries and theatres including the worlds above as well as below stairs of America's Gilded Age, France's Belle Epoque and late Victorian and Edwardian England. thegilde...
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Rediscovering Edith Wharton’s First Book
Many fans of Edith Wharton's great novels "The Age of Innocence" and "The House of Mirth" may not realize that her very first published book was not a...
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, serves up a fascinating history of cocktails in the 19...
A New Year in Old New York: From Times Square to Chinatown
For many New Yorkers—and visitors alike—New Year’s Eve means gathering in Times Square, patiently counting down as the crystal-studded ball descends f...
Hot Victorian Holiday: Bowery Boys History Live! at City Winery
Bowery Boys History Live is a live-show series at City Winery hosted by Greg Young featuring a variety of historians and tour guides. The last install...
Inside 'Ragtime': The Return of an American Musical Epic
The new revival of the musical Ragtime, by Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens (book by Terrence McNally, based on the novel by E.L. Doctorow), is one of...
The Gilded Age Christmas Cookbook
During the 19th century celebrations began to evolve from the once more popular New Year's Day to the beginnings of the Christmas celebrations we know...
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 w...
Rogues Gallery: Fighting Crime in the Gilded Age
As New York grew throughout the 19th century so too did crime grow within the burgeoning population. In the early years, there was little in the way o...
The First Theft from the Louvre
On October 19, 2025, the world was shocked to learn of a brazen daylight heist of precious jewels from the Louvre. But this was not the first ambitiou...
The Scandalous Hamiltons: The True Crime That Shocked the Gilded Age
The height of the Gilded Age also brought about the rise of tabloid journalism. Newspapers competed with one another to see who could expose the most...
Oscar Wilde on Dress: A New Discovery
In 2013, John Cooper, an expert on Oscar Wilde, made a surprising discovery. While researching aspects of Wilde's famous 1882 American lecture tour, h...
Ulysses S. Grant: A President on the Edge of the Gilded Age
Ulysses S. Grant, one of the most important and consequential presidents, is also one of the most misunderstood.
Ulysses Dietz, Grant's great-...
The Fashion and Hair of Downton Abbey
As the new feature film Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale opens worldwide, we see for the final time the elegant, glamorous and always dramatic world of...
The Butler Speaks! Simon Jones (Bannister from HBO's The Gilded Age)
Butlers, it seems, know everything. They are privy to the goings-on above and below stairs, and, of course, they keep it - mostly - to themselves. A...
Gay in the Gilded Age with Claybourne Elder
One of the most anxiously followed storylines in HBO's "The Gilded Age" has been the love story between Oscar van Rhijn and John Adams.
Adams (...
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 Rus...
The Gilded Age's Kelley Curran: Playing Mrs. Winterton
We all have our favorite characters on HBO's "The Gilded Age," and one fan favorite is certainly the maid-turned-social climber, the former Enid Turne...
Who Was Ward McAllister?
Some called him the Gilded Age's biggest snob. Others thought he was a genius of social protocol and maneuvering through aristocratic circles.
...
The Story of Black Newport: A Rich and Vibrant Legacy
Newport, Rhode Island has been an important center for the evolution of America's African heritage community. -- from its earliest days of the 18th ce...
Playing Mamie Fish: A Conversation with Ashlie Atkinson and Keith Taillon
The divine Mamie Fish, the eagle-eyed, sharp tongued social arbiter that regularly appears in the HBO series The Gilded Age, was indeed a real Gilded...
Consuelo Vanderbilt and the Gilded Age's Million Dollar Princesses
During the late 19th century, nearly 200 wealthy young American women were caught up in marriages with members of British and European nobility.
Inside HBO"s "The Gilded Age": A Conversation with Creative Producer Luke Harlan
Are you as bewitched and bedazzled with this season of HBO's The Gilded Age as we are? And have you been curious about how all the magic we see unfold...
The Real Mrs. Astor
The Gilded Gentleman looks at one of the most legendary figures of the Gilded Age – Caroline Astor, or the Mrs Astor, the ruler and creator of New Yor...
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 impr...
Frederick Douglass's Gilded Age
The life of Frederick Douglass, the great 19th century statesman, orator, writer and abolitionist, is a triumphantly American story.
He was born...
John Singer Sargent in Paris: The Path to Madame X
Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Stephanie Herdrich joins Carl for an in-depth look at how the career and personal life of Gilded Age artist John Si...
Augustus Saint-Gaudens: Sculptor of the Gilded Age
The Irish-born Augustus Saint-Gaudens came to this country as a small child and over the course of his career and life, reaching into the early years...
Gilded Age French Fashion ENCORE
With the Metropolitan Museum of Art's annual Gala on the first Monday of May and the new exhibition on John Singer Sargent and Paris, there is most de...
Egyptomania: From Napoleon to the Discovery of King Tutankhamen
During the 19th century and culminating in America's Gilded Age, the public's deep fascination for all things Egypt led to "Egyptomania," a craze whic...
Inside The Frick Collection: The Upstairs Downstairs World of a Gilded Age Mansion
This week The Frick Collection will reopen its doors to the public after a renovation and restoration of nearly five years and a cost of $220 million...
The Last Ships from Hamburg: The Untold Story of the Escape of the Russian Jews
Between the late 1890s and early 1920s, over 2 million Jews from Eastern Europe made the long, arduous and unsettling journey to America to escape per...
NoHo: Gilded Age Origins of an Iconic New York Neighborhood
New York's NoHo neighborhood, wedged between Greenwich Village and the East Village, holds the stories of many people and places that then went on to...
Belle da Costa Greene: The Untold Story of J. P. Morgan's Librarian
Belle da Costa Greene is a truly unique historical figure. As the librarian of Gilded Age financier J.P Morgan's extraordinary personal collection of...
John Singer Sargent: Painting a Gilded Age Love Story
Edith Minturn was a Gilded Age society beauty. Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes was a New York architect passionate about preserving the city's past.
The Bradley Martin Ball 1897
Of all the balls and parties thrown during the Gilded Age, the extravagant evening hosted by Bradley and Cornela Martin at the Waldorf in 1897 was per...
Be Mine: The World of Victorian Valentines
Who doesn't like to get a valentine -- perhaps even from a mysterious admirer?
The practice of sending valentines goes back centuries, and thes...
The Gilded Age Art of Hairdressing
Historian Dr. Elizabeth L. Block, author of "Beyond Vanity: The History and Power of Hairdressing," returns to the show for an insightful and fascinat...
Tasting Stars: The History of Champagne with Don Spiro ENCORE
To ring in the new year, join Carl and listener favorite guest Don Spiro for an encore presentation of the history of champagne. Don, vintage beverag...
New York's Grace Church: Gilded Age Society's Most Fashionable Church
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...
Vienna 1874: Die Fledermaus and the World of Johann Strauss II
The world of Vienna at the end of the 19th century was a world of change. New design, new fashion and new philosophy -- and new music.
But a...