Résultats pour "The Gilded Age" dans Affaires criminelles

"Millionaire" had just entered the American lexicon and Cassie Chadwick was front page news, becoming a media sensation before mass media, even eclipsing President Roosevelt’s inauguration. Using these newspaper articles, Hazelgrove tells the story of one of the greatest cons in American history.

This docuseries re-examines the infamous Lizzie Borden murders through the lens of Victorian America’s social tensions, gender politics, and emerging fascination with true crime. From the violent underbelly of the Gilded Age to the birth of forensic science and sensational journalism, the series traces how one brutal case redefined American media, justice, and gender perception. Blending history, psychology, and cultural analysis, KILL Lizzie Borden - Victorian Scandal reveals how the Borden murders became not just a mystery, but a mirror reflecting the contradictions of an age obsessed with...

In 1885 Jane and Leland Stanford cofounded a university to honor their recently deceased young son. After her husband's death in 1893, Jane Stanford, a devoted spiritualist who expected the university to inculcate her values, steered Stanford into eccentricity and public controversy for more than a decade. In 1905 she was murdered in Hawaii, a victim, according to the Honolulu coroner's jury, of strychnine poisoning.

It's a story almost too tawdry to be true—a con woman prostitute who met the descendant of a Founding Father in a brothel, duped him into marriage using an infant purchased from a baby farm, then went to prison for stabbing the couple's baby nurse—all while in a common-law marriage with another man. The scandal surrounding Evangeline and Robert Ray Hamilton, though little known today, was one of the sensations of the Gilded Age.

Following every episode of HBO Max’s period drama The Gilded Age, Pod Clubhouse’s Mike and Caroline will break down the show’s broad strokes and nitty-gritty, while providing some historical reference.

Discover the true story of a self-taught surgeon and trailblazing figure in medical history—Madame Restsell, a revolutionary surgeon who fought for women's rights and healthcare in Gilded Age New York.Madame Restell is a sharp, witty Gilded Age medical history which introduces us to an iconic...