The American Gilded Age was a period of significant economic change, conflict between old and new systems, and fortunes made and lost.
Season Two opens on Easter 1883 as Bertha Russell learns her bid for a box at the Academy of Music has been rejected. Over eight episodes, Bertha challenges Mrs. Astor and the old system to gain a foothold in society, George Russell battles a growing union at his Pittsburgh steel plant, Marian secretly teaches at a girls school, and Ada starts a new courtship, to Agnes disapproval. In Brooklyn, the Scott family heals from a shocking discovery, and Peggy becomes an activist through her work at The New York Globe.
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