1+ week, 9+ hour ago  (146+ words) KTBS 3 America 250 fact of the day: Gilded Age SHREVEPORT, La. - As we approach the 250th anniversary of America, KTBS 3/KPXJ CW 21 continues to celebrate this history of our nation. The late 1800s were known as the Gilded Age, when inventions like Thomas…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (150+ words) National Endowment for the Humanities (. gov) Perspectives on the American Revolution shift the further west you go. While American revolutionaries were fighting for independence from the British, the Spanish were slowly advancing along the West Coast. During the Revolutionary War,…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (108+ words) By RANDY MINK Special to the Journal & Topics With my interests in history, architecture, antiques and the Gilded Age in particular, I am always ready to tour a grand Victorian home and often fantasize about living a life of wealth…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (141+ words) New York City has long been a place of extremes. During the Gilded Age (about 1870 to 1900), the contrast in the way the wealthy and the poor lived in New York was drastic. .. Photograph of William K. Vanderbilt's home on the corner…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago  (1518+ words) Alva Vanderbilt's 39th birthday present from her husband was a 140, 000-square-foot summer "cottage" on the shores of Newport, Rhode Island. In recent years, the HBO show "The Gilded Age" has used Marble House as a film set. I visited the expansive…...