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

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

But tariffs aren’t the whole story. The genius of the Gilded Age was interstate regulatory and tax competition. That economy boomed. From 1870 to 1913, America’s gross domestic product grew at nearly ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...