Such conditions, combined with the “dark sides” of the Gilded Age, produced an environment that allowed Americans to have an ...

It was the Gilded Age, a time of rapid population growth and transformation from an agricultural economy toward a sprawling industrial system, when poverty was widespread while barons of phenomenal ...

Richard White, the historian and author of "The Republic for Which It Stands," explains what made the late 19th century ...

It was the Gilded Age, a time of rapid population growth and transformation from an agricultural economy toward a sprawling industrial system, when poverty was widespread while barons of ...

Laura Fair approached Alexander Parker Crittenden and his family on a San Francisco-bound ferry. She shouted at him that he ...

more than half of the U.S. population lived in poverty in 1900. We the people were not doing so well at that time. As for Loyola’s praise for the Gilded Age, I can only say he ought to be glad ...

The Gilded Age featured extraordinary wealth for a small class of people that largely obscured rampant poverty for many other Americans. Many contemporary politicians were openly influenced by the ...