The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3430: Social Register

Posted Tuesday, November 10, 2026 1:01 am

Dr. John Lienhard (via Houston Public Media)

Episode: 3430 In which the Social Register summons up memories of a bygone upper class. Today, the Social Register.

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Engines Podcast, A Successful Calamity, class, depression, Frederick Weyer-haeuser, Gilded Age, income inequality, James J. Hill, Minneapolis, pre-code movies, Social Register, sociology, St.Paul, Summit Avenue, wealth, WW-II