Gilded Age stars Cynthia Nixon and Christine Baranski told DECIDER that Ada and Agnes’s comments to Aurora are indicative of where they fall in society’s pecking order. “I think that we are ...

This invitation, to a “Poverty Party,” asked guests to come to the home of D.W. Tripp in Athens, Pennsylvania, in February 1896. Held at the tail end of the Gilded Age, this “POVErTY SOSHUL ...

‘The Gilded Age’ review: PBS looks at income inequality in the late 19th century, with its parallels to today, in Sarah Colt’s ‘American Experience’ documentary ...

The phrase “the gilded age” is borrowed from Mark Twain’s 1873 novel of the same name, a political satire about the materialism and corruption of the years following the Civil War.

Cynthia Nixon and Christine Baranski defend Ada and Agnes’s frosty response to the terrible news: “We are little fish in this big pond.” ...