Welcome back to “The Gilded Age,” a vaguely historical retelling of the lavish, game-changing era of American history that followed the 19th century possibility of poor people figuring out how to ...

A hundred years ago, America's wealth concentrated in New York's Fifth Avenue. Today, the richest Americans reside in places ...

HBO’s period drama The Gilded Age has undergone a remarkable transformation since its 2022 premiere, evolving from initial comparisons to Downton Abbey into a groundbreaking exploration of Black ...

In 1894, over the objection of the governor and the mayor, President Grover Cleveland sent American soldiers into Chicago and then invoked the Insurrection Act to suppress strikes and protests. His ...

I haven’t watched America’s Next Top Model since 2008, but the format stays with ya, ya know? And as I watched The Gilded Age Season 3 finale, I felt like we were having an ANTM-style competition of ...

Industrialization and the rise of big business / Glenn Porter -- Technology and America as a consumer society, 1870-1900 / W. Bernard Carlson -- American workers and the labor movement in the late ...

What’s known as the Guiled Age was a wonderful time for wealthy Americans. Not so much for the working class. The “Titans of Industry” got richer at the expense of the rest of the nation. One big ...

New Perspectives on Portraiture: “Soul-Searching: The Portrait in Gilded Age America” by Akela Reason From the Edgar P. Richardson Symposium: New Perspectives on Portraiture at the National Portrait ...

The GOP’s goal has been to Make America Great Again. But when was America great before? If you look at what the present administration is doing, you might say that the 1890s, the peak years of the ...

Although most of us have heard of sugar plums, many of us have likely never actually tasted one. Sugar plums are just one example of Gilded Age holiday sweets that have been eclipsed as America ...