History on TV 
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SOURCE: Smithsonian
1/20/2022
The True History Behind HBO's "The Gilded Age"
by Kimberly A. Hamlin
The new series follows fictional characters but is well-grounded in the innovations and inequalities that characterized urban America in the late nineteenth century, thanks in large part to the work of the show's historical consultant Professor Eric Armstrong Dunbar.
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