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The term Gilded Age was applied to the era by 1920s historians who took the term from one of Mark Twain's lesser-known novels, The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873). The book (co-written with Charles Dudley Warner ) satirized the promised " golden age " after the Civil War, portrayed as an era of serious social problems masked by a thin gold ...
They were an idealist generation and as young adults; their leaders were famous preachers. Some were graduates of newly formed black and women's colleges. Their defining characteristics were missionary and social crusades: "muckraker" journalism, prohibitionism, workers' rights, trade unionism and women's suffrage. [74]
Chateau-sur-Mer, on Bellevue Avenue, in Newport, Rhode Island, was remodeled and redecorated during the Gilded Age of the 1870s by Richard Morris Hunt in this style. This study, however, along with historical events, proved to be the undoing of the style, although Second Empire buildings continued to be constructed until the end of the 19th ...
In The Gilded Age, The Breakers' Great Hall and Music Room act as Bertha Russell's (played by Carrie Coon) ballroom. This work of Neo-Italian Renaissance architecture was built between 1893 and ...
HBO’s new series “The Gilded Age” takes a deep dive into the era of 1882 New York City at a time of heightened prosperity, industrial growth and an internal clash amid society as “new ...
In The Gilded Age, the Breakers' Great Hall and Music Room act as Bertha Russell's (played by Carrie Coon) ballroom. This work of Neo-Italian Renaissance architecture was built between 1893 and ...
Gilded Age mansions were lavish houses built between 1870 and the early 20th century by some of the richest people in the United States. These estates were raised by the nation's industrial, financial and commercial elite, who amassed great fortunes in era of expansion of the tobacco, railroad, steel, and oil industries coinciding with a lack ...
‘The Gilded Age’ on HBO offers a fresh perspective of women’s roles during the late 19th century. But Meredith Clark writes that the history of the time period is far different than what is ...