On January 27, 2022, at 5:00 p.m. CT, the Mark Twain novel, and by extension the newly released HBO program, “The Gilded Age,” will be part of a program from the Preservation Society of Newport, Rhode Island. Center director Dr. Carroll Van West will talk about Mark Twain’s Tennessee context.

From the Society’s announcement of the program:
Naming an Era: The Gilded Age as Novel and Nom de Guerre
Thursday, January 27, 6 p.m. ET (5:00 p.m. CT), via Zoom
Join us Thursday, January 27, 2022, for our first lecture of the new year. “Naming an Era: The Gilded Age as Novel and Nom de Guerre” will begin at 6 p.m. ET, live via Zoom. Historians and scholars of Mark Twain will join in conversation to analyze and discuss the origins of the term “Gilded Age,” which was taken from the Mark Twain and Charley Dudley Warner 1873 novel “The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today.” While the fictional book is largely based in Tennessee and Washington, D.C., it provides a contextual framework of current events and social structure that made for this largely misunderstood period in American history.

Speakers include Dr. Carroll Van West, professor and Tennessee State Historian; Pieter Roos, Executive Director of the Mark Twain House; Dr. James Golden, Twain scholar and Director of Interpretation at Historic Deerfield; and Dr. Kerry Driscoll, author and Associate Editor of the Mark Twain Papers and Project at the University of California, Berkeley. The link below allows you to register for free.
https://www.newportmansions.org/learn/adult-programs