America in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

Mrs. Vanderbilt's Gala Ball (1x13)

Air date: May 01, 2015

Take the measure of the new breed of multimillionaire industrialists that emerged in the Gilded Age as a visible public presence. Contrast the earlier American mindset of republican simplicity with the new rich who displayed and flaunted their wealth through vast estates and European-style aristocratic living.