The 2023 Spring seminar series at the Breakers, hosted by the Preservation Society of Newport County focused on the transformation of the United States in the Gilded Age. Listen to CEO of the Society Trudy Coxe and Director of Curation and Programming Leslie Jones talk about the series. Here also are the links to the various lectures:

• Michael Patrick Cullinane "The Gilded Age: Past and Present"
• Matthew Bird "The Gilded Years: The First Information Age"
• Will B. Mackintosh "The Many Playgrounds of the Industrial Age"
• T.J. Stiles "Age of the Machine: The Fight to Reinvent Democracy in the Gilded Age"
• Richard Guy Wilson "Creating a New American Image: Architecture, 1870-1910"
• Nancy Unger "Under the Gold-Plating: Everyday Americans in the Gilded Age"

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