The Emancipation Proclamation Exposition of 1913
byIn 1913, African-American New Yorkers celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation with a ten day exposition. Led by W.E.B. DuBois and members…
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Breaking into Gilded Age New York Society
byBreaking into The Four Hundred became an art, as C. W. de Lyon Nicholls details in his book The Ultra-fashionable Peerage of America: Marriage…
Primer to Gilded Age New York Society
byBy now you’ve probably heard the news of NBC’s new deal with Downton Abbey’s Julian Fellowes to create a period drama set in Gilded…