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Newport offered rare opportunities for Black prosperity and dignity during the Gilded Age. How much did the show get right?
The American welfare state has always been imperfect because it has always been incomplete — means-tested rather than ...
HBO’s The Gilded Age, which was created by Downton Abbey’s Julian Fellowes, has truly captured audiences season after season.
The Gilded Age of the late-19th and early-20th centuries displays prominent parallels to the Trump administration’s coziness with the billionaire class, with one caveat.