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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s déjà vu all over again. The robber barons are back. The wealthy have their cottages by the sea in the Hamptons, in ...

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 ...