Lectures on Tap - "What HBO’s ‘The Gilded Age’ Gets Right"

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🧠 Lecture: "What HBO’s ‘The Gilded Age’ Gets Right"

🎙️ Speaker: Christine Morgan

Join us for a captivating evening exploring the dazzling world of HBO’s “The Gilded Age” and the real history behind the drama. Christine Morgan will dive into the characters, extravagant fashion, and sweeping social changes of America’s Gilded Age to reveal what the show gets right—and where it takes creative license.

Which characters are based on real historical figures? Were table manners and social rules truly that strict? How did industrialization and progressive reform shape the lives of the rich and powerful? Christine will unpack it all, separating fact from fiction while illuminating the lives of the era’s power players—especially the women who helped define the age.

Christine Morgan holds a Master’s in History from UNC–Charlotte and is an independent researcher based in Chicago. She has contributed to popular history podcasts, published in History Today and Medievalists Magazine, and is currently writing her debut nonfiction book on powerful women in America’s Gilded Age.

Get a drink, connect, and learn at Lectures on Tap! 🙌

Agenda

6:30 PM – Doors open: find a seat (open seating!), order food & drinks, and expect a bar line—arriving early is key.

6:55 PM – Host introduction

7:00 PM – Lecture begins

7:45 PM – Audience Q&A

8:00 PM – Have 1:1 time with the speaker, mingle with fellow guests, and order another round

8:30 PM – Wrap up.