Introduction: At home in nineteenth-century America -- The emergence of the nineteenth-century domestic ideal : Excerpt from Henry Lee and Mary Lee, Letters and journals: with other family letters, ...

That’s why that term for that late-19th-century period in American history — the Gilded Age — is so apt. As historian Nell Irvin Painter explains, “‘Gilded’ is not golden. ‘Gilded’ has the sense of a ...