The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt
This episode is a feed drop from the Brattleboro Literary Cocktail Hour, a monthly event hosted by the Brattleboro Literary Festival. I am in conversation with Ed O'Keefe, the author of The Loves of T...
28 Maj 20241h 1min
Preserved: A Cultural History of the Funeral Home
SHOW SPONSOR SHGAPE & The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era: I have never thought of funeral directors as the preservationists of Gilded Age architecture, but they are. Thanks to Dr. Dean...
14 Maj 20241h 9min
Mining the Irish West
The Irish are best known for migrating to American cities along the east coast, notably Boston and New York. Dr. Alan Noonan joins the show to explain how the Irish also moved to the American West, an...
30 Apr 20241h
Chasing Beauty
There are a few people that embody a period. Isabella Stewart Gardner knew many of the the movers and shakers of the Gilded Age and lived from 1840-1924. Her story, and her compulsion to buy the art o...
16 Apr 202447min
Missionary Diplomacy
Thousands of Christian missionaries left the United States in search of souls to save. They often found trouble. And almost always became non-governmental diplomats, whether as translators or unoffic...
2 Apr 202452min
The Money Kings
Jacob Schiff, Joseph Seligman, Marcus Goldman, and the Lehman Brothers have one thing in common. All were Jewish immigrants who made a fortune as financiers in the United States. Best-selling author a...
20 Mars 20241h 2min
Special Episode: 2 Complicated 4 History
In this special episode, The Gilded Age and Progressive Era is taken over by popular podcast 2 Complicated 4 History and hosts Dr Lynn Price Robbins and Isaac Loftus. 2 Complicated 4 History is a show...
13 Mars 20241h 3min
Pax Economica
Economics might study trade, commerce, and financial markets, but the discipline explores human interaction as much as any other subject. The idea of free trade, especially the idea espoused by Richar...
28 Feb 20241h 1min
