Calling all history geeks, New Yorkers and lovers of great storytelling.

I'm hosting another edition of Bowery Boys History Live at City Winery on Tuesday, May 26th.

Bowery Boys History Live is a storytelling cabaret for history lovers.

And the theme for this show?

Heated rivalries from American history.

Spotlighting the nation's most combative frenemies and jaw-dropping

personal clashes. Alexander Hamilton versus Aaron Burr was only the beginning. I'll be joined on

stage by Carl Raymond from the Gilded Gentleman podcast and special guest Lori Gwen Shapiro,

author of the new Amelia Earhart biography, The Aviator, and the showman. That's Barry Boy's History Live at City Winery at Pier 57 in Manhattan on May 26th.

Alexander, Aaron, prepare a duel.

Get your tickets at citywinery.com.

Just a warning. The following show contains descriptions of 18th and 19th century body snatching and grave robbing that are often quite graphic and disturbing.

Hello, this is Carl Raymond,

host of the Gilded Gentleman History Podcast,

where every two weeks we journey into worlds light and dark in America's Gilded Age, France's Bel-E puck,

and England's late Victorian and Edwardian Eres.

Alexander Turny Stewart was hands down one of the wealthiest men in the gilded age.

Arriving from Ireland as a young man, he made his fortune by becoming the first apartment store mogul in America.

He lagged only slightly behind the Astors and the Vanderbilt's in terms of wealth,

and at his death it was claimed he was worth over $50 million in the currency of the day.

He lived lavishly, and when he died, he was given a

funeral with all the solemnity and ceremony of the self-made man that he was. He was buried in the

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