The Gilded Age was a study in contrasts. Immigrants arrived in New York City with little to nothing in their pockets, while just uptown some of the richest men and women in America built mansions ...

His second inaugural address promised a “golden age,” but the ideas in it evoked the late 1800s more than any recent ...

The Gilded Age was a study in contrasts. Immigrants arrived in New York City with little to nothing in their pockets, while just uptown some of the richest men and women in America built mansions ...

(RNS) — “The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today” by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner, published in 1873, gave the period from the late 19 th to early 20 th century its most lasting metaphor — a thin ...

As symbols of their economic power and social position, the Gilded Age princes of commerce and barons of industry built city palaces and country cottages. An excessive show of wealth was not new, but ...

Some critics have argued the US actually seems to be in something like the Gilded Age, the period in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, after Reconstruction and before the Progressive era ...

It’s déjà vu all over again. The robber barons are back. The wealthy have their cottages by the sea in the Hamptons, in international mansions, and at Ma-a-Lago instead of ...

In Twain's Gilded Age, he said, "The influence of capitalism ... elite class while ordinary Americans and waves of new immigrants struggled to get by, and cities had the poor stuffed into barely ...