The government is larger today than it was back then, so there was less interest on the part of the oligarchs of the day to ...

It’s worth noting that the Gilded Age was also notable for a strong nativist sentiment, with hatred toward immigrants with the Chinese Exclusion Act and violence directed at immigrants from ...

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

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 these things were different. In the 19th century, a ...

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 ...

Some citizens of this republic will see Donald Trump’s second inauguration as a glorious new beginning; others will see it as a dispiriting surrender to the nation’s worst tendencies. Many ...

They argue today's America has all the hallmarks of a new Gilded Age. That age is a reference to the period between post-Civil War reconstruction and the early 20th century and takes its name from ...

(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 ...