We must enact election reform to stop the ultrawealthy from dominating the conversation through social media and propaganda.

They called it the ‘Gilded Age’, a window of time in American ... in which wealthy American families like railroad tycoons the Vanderbilts, and publishing magnates the Hearsts, came into ...

The Breakers, built 1895 as a summer estate by the Vanderbilt family, one of the famous Newport Mansions on Rhode Island. Tim Graham/Getty Images From the elegant HBO series "The Gilded Age" to the ...

with Alva Vanderbilt being instrumental in the Met's opening. Therefore, Bertha's support of the new opera house in The Gilded Age is not without historical precedent. However, Bertha's exact ...

While the Vanderbilts amassed great wealth, and built a stately home to match their status, that wasn't the case for everyone ...

The Gilded Age was a study in contrasts ... Ernest Marx/Library of Congress 3. VANDERBILT HOUSE — 1 West 57th Street in New York City Alva Vanderbilt was the driving force behind the “Petite ...

held books on architecture and European history that were original to the Vanderbilt family's collection. "This room is really the epitome of the Gilded Age," Caitlin Emery, the research and ...

During the Gilded Age in the late 1800s, railroad tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt was the richest man in America with a net worth of $100 million (around $200 billion today), more money than the US ...

The Vanderbilts, one of America's wealthiest Gilded Age families, owned multiple opulent homes. The Breakers in Newport, Rhode Island, was their summer escape. Now a museum, the Breakers features ...