The Vanderbilt Ball thrilled the wealthiest New Yorkers on the night of Monday, March 26, 1883. The hottest topic of society pages for months, it also revealed outrageous excess among the most privileged people of the Gilded Age. Many in attendance were on the list of 400. Those
Inventions and Discoveries of the Industrial Revolution defined today’s world.
Strange nineteenth-century customs, holidays and events echo in today’s world.
Victorian Age fashion pushed forward into greater freedom.
Advances in the Industrial Era spawned secret places, many of which you can still visit.
Nellie Bly and other Victorian Era visionaries blazed trails to your future.
Explore pets, plants and other 19th century natural wonders and people who protected them.
Rival journalists Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland raced around the world in 1889. Facing treacherous…
