HBO's The Gilded Age is fiction, but informed deeply by history, with several characters that are based on real people ...

In an 1813 letter, former President Thomas Jefferson told John Astor on the establishment of Fort Astoria, it was “the germ of a great, free, and independent empire on that side of our continent.” ...

It's been a long, long time that there's been bad blood between Elton John and Madonna. But after more than two decades, the pair have patched things up. "Forgiveness is a powerful tool," she wrote.

In 1911, a teenaged socialite named Madeleine Talmage Force rose from relative obscurity to land one of the greatest eligible bachelors of her era: a newly divorced Colonel John Jacob Astor IV ...

Tall, lean and mustachioed John Jacob Astor IV wanted to accompany her in Lifeboat 4, but his apogeal social status and family fortune — born of the fur trade, then turbocharged by New York real ...

ASTOR, Fla. - Hurricane Milton may be over, but Central Florida is still under siege from the system. The St. John’s River is expected to reach major flood stage by next week. The new threat comes ...

The John Batchelor show began September 12, 2001, the day after the terrorist attacks. The show was nationally syndicated in March 2003, and ended on September 1, 2006. He also talked about his ...

Kitty Jacob Astor II, the St. Regis resort dog and Grand Marshal in the recent Fourth of July parade, just celebrated his 6th birthday in the St. Regis courtyard. Kitty is a Bernese Mountain dog named ...

The object once belonged to John Jacob Astor, the richest passenger who perished with the ocean liner when it tragically sunk in the early hours of April 15, 1912. The watch sold to a private US ...

The auction house said the watch, engraved with the initials of its former owner, businessman John Jacob Astor IV, fetched the highest-ever price for a piece of Titanic memorabilia. The watch was ...

An American buyer won the bidding war for John Jacob Astor IV's 14-carat gold Waltham pocket watch, shattering the auctioneer's pre-sale estimate of £150,000, according to Henry Aldridge & Son.

A gold pocket watch worn by John Jacob Astor, the wealthiest person on the Titanic, has sold for six times the asking price. This is equal to another record for artefacts from the Titanic, a violin ...