HBO’s The Gilded Age, which was created by Downton Abbey’s Julian Fellowes, has truly captured audiences season after season.

The Hall of Fame filly born in 1956 raced brilliantly on the hard, fast tracks in the West, but struggled to show the same ...

A marine research team said yesterday that it had discovered the wreck of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt's elegant, silver-laden passenger and cargo ship, the Lexington, which burned and sank in ...

Edward Renehan, Jr., talked about his biography [Commodore: The Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt], published by Basic Books. In his book he recounts the life of Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794-1877), who ...

In the late 19th century, the Vanderbilt family began their rise to fame and fortune with the monopolization of the railroad ...

Meet Mr. C, the Vanderbilt Commodore Never will you have a more well-mannered, prim and proper leader than Mr. Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt. Here, here.

Cornelius Vanderbilt III, a descendant of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, was found stabbed to death in his Staten Island home Thursday morning, police said. The partly clad body of Vanderbilt, 72 ...

“The public? Bah! The public be damned . . .” snorted bullet-headed Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt many years ago. His great-great-grandson, Cornelius Vanderbilt IV, a gangling 26-year-old ...

A statue of the late Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt is presented to the Public Museum, St. George. It is reported that Vanderbilt lived on Staten Island when he was building his fortune.

Vanderbilt, already the owner of New York Central, fired the first shot in 1866 when he set out to gain control of the only competing railroad between New York and the Great Lakes: the Erie Railroad.

Exhibition Label Born Staten Island, New York By organizing the fragmented transportation system in the United States, Cornelius Vanderbilt facilitated continental expansion and created the ...

A marine research team said yesterday that it had discovered the wreck of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt's elegant, silver-laden passenger and cargo ship, the Lexington, which burned and sank in ...