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Calvin Coolidge, the 30th president of the United States, who governed the country through most of the 1920s, was born 150 years ago today in Vermont. Here's Coolidge in 1926 with a delegation of women descended from signers of the Declaration of Independence. #July4th https://t.co/uQ02RFPHvk

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The first episode Gilded Age or Gilded Cage? was recorded at the legendary Salmagundi Club and features Tom and Greg from the Bowery Boys podcast. What did the 'Gilded Age' mean when Mark Twain first wrote about it in 1873? And what does it mean today? https://t.co/EmtoCJ6lkx https://t.co/C0uKkx9ttd

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Gustave Flaubert was born 200 years ago today in Rouen, France. When his book Madame Bovary was first serialized in 1856, Flaubert was taken to court on charges of obscenity. Publicity around the scandal then made the book a best seller when it was finally published in 1857. https://t.co/JxgxpoiKnG

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American novelist Edith Wharton was born 160 years ago today in New York, the descendant of an 'old money' family who would insightfully observe the particulars of Gilded Age high society in her classic books The Age of Innocence and The House of Mirth: https://t.co/utZhznvPTY https://t.co/GmoYV9n8rn

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Celebrate the holiday season with the latest episode of The Gilded Gentleman, exploring the history of Christmas in Old New York. Plus a chat with John Kevin Jones who plays Charles Dickens in a one-man adaptation of A Christmas Carol at @MerchantsHouse: https://t.co/I8P95O27j0 https://t.co/LlIdj7Wa2K

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On the new Bowery Boys podcast, the history of Jefferson Market (from market to courthouse to library) and a look at the most notorious place in Greenwich Village -- the Women's House of Detention. Featuring a chat with author @Hugh_Ryan. Listen today: https://t.co/gdR4YwrQ7p https://t.co/Mp8wTgU3ox

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In the book 'The Adventures of Herbie Cohen: World’s Greatest Negotiator', Rich Cohen celebrates his no-nonsense, wise-cracking father with nostalgic tales of old Brooklyn that feel like they're being told to you over the kitchen table. My review: https://bit.ly/3R5njag https://t.co/T1kopZipTm

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American novelist Edith Wharton was born 160 years ago today in New York, the descendant of an 'old money' family who would insightfully observe the particulars of Gilded Age high society in her classic books The Age of Innocence and The House of Mirth: https://t.co/utZhznvPTY https://t.co/GmoYV9n8rn

The Bowery Boys Podcast

The first episode Gilded Age or Gilded Cage? was recorded at the legendary Salmagundi Club and features Tom and Greg from the Bowery Boys podcast. What did the 'Gilded Age' mean when Mark Twain first wrote about it in 1873? And what does it mean today? https://t.co/EmtoCJ6lkx https://t.co/C0uKkx9ttd

The Bowery Boys Podcast

American novelist Edith Wharton was born 160 years ago today in New York, the descendant of an 'old money' family who would insightfully observe the particulars of Gilded Age high society in her classic books The Age of Innocence and The House of Mirth: https://t.co/utZhznvPTY https://t.co/GmoYV9n8rn