Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan, once a society fixture, is the real life inspiration behind one of the central characters in ...

HBO’s The Gilded Age, which was created by Downton Abbey’s Julian Fellowes, has truly captured audiences season after season.

Five Best: Books on Gilded Age Politics. Selected by C.W. Goodyear, the author, most recently, of ‘President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier. ...

F abulous displays of wealth, high society scandals and power struggles at all levels fuel the opulent drama of HBO’s The Gilded Age, which premiered on Monday.The show, which comes by way of ...

The HBO series The Gilded Age depicts a world of money, ambition, shifting power, and dark secrets. And while it is (for the most part) fictionalized, it also might not be too far from the truth ...

Here’s the book for you “The Gilded Age Cookbook” peeks into the extravagant parties of the 19th-century American elite, from gelatin-encased food to a monkey as the guest of honor.

The University of Alabama Press, $79.95, 360 pages Unlike many other millionaires in the Gilded Age of the 19th century, Henry Bradley Plant rose from humble beginnings to become “a man who ...

THE GIVERS: WEALTH, POWER, AND PHILANTHROPY IN A NEW GILDED AGE By David Callahan Knopf, $28.95, 343 pages David Callahan is worried. He sees America headed toward a period of ever-growing ...

Recipes adapted from “The Gilded Age Cookbook” by Becky Libourel Diamond (Globe Pequot, 2023). Jackson writes for the (Minneapolis) Star Tribune. This article was provided by Tribune News Service.