The Gilded Age takes some creative liberties with its storytelling, but many of the plots, characters and events are rooted ...

W hen Mark Twain coined the term “The Gilded Age,” it wasn’t a compliment, regardless of what the HBO series tries to imply. It was meant to acknowledge the corruption under ...

The HBO series is peppered with references to real-life personages and historical events—but it lacks the anything-goes ...

Wealthy families in the Gilded Age spent conspicuously, from fancy clothes to European palace-inspired mansions to lavish balls.

The Gilded Age is a lavish soap opera set in the late 19th century in New York City and Rhode Island. “The Gilded Age” is a coin termed by none other than Mark Twain to describe the turbulent ...

While his nostalgia is clear, it’s essential to recognize that the so-called “Golden Age” he envisions closely resembles the ...

The Russells and van Rhijns might not be in residence, but these historic homes are still fascinating—and you won’t have to use the servants’ entrance.

Twain’s barnstorming was always a matter of paying the bills. He not only wrote a book called “The Gilded Age” — he lived its ethos of boom and bust. The allure of being not just a scribbler but also ...

And of course, he coins the term Gilded Age, which is what we refer to the late 19th century time of robber barons. Three of which I think you’ve written biographies of.

Before he was Mark Twain, he was Samuel Langhorne Clemens, born in 1835 in Florida, Mo., before moving, at the age of 4, to nearby Hannibal—his beloved “white town drowsing” on the banks of ...

When Mark Twain coined the term “The Gilded Age,” it wasn’t a compliment, regardless of what the HBO series tries to imply. It was meant to acknowledge the corruption under the surface gloss ...