HBO’s Gilded Age — Fact and Fiction

Recap the just-concluded Season 3 of HBO’s Gilded Age, crafted from real life characters from the Industrial Age in New York City. View vintage photographs and hear backstories of the actual events while learning about the historical figures and places that appear in the show, such as the excommunication from society of Ward McAllister, the social rules of divorcées, the real-life divorcée, Charlotte Astor Drayton (Mrs. Astor’s daughter), and the Black elite of New York and Newport.