(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 ...

Railroad barons, gargantuan East Coast mansions and elaborate galas are all synonymous with the Gilded Age – a period of US history after the Civil War that saw rapid industrial development and a ...

Many students of history were surprised when Donald Trump promised at his second inauguration to usher America into a new “Golden Age.” As he spoke, he was surrounded by a cadre of tech billionaires.

“We were at our richest from 1870 to 1913. That’s when we were a tariff country,” said President Donald Trump recently, and he’s not wrong. But tariffs aren’t the whole story. The genius of the Gilded ...

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

The Vanderbilts, one of America's wealthiest Gilded Age families, owned multiple opulent homes. The Breakers in Newport, Rhode Island, was their summer escape. Now a museum, the Breakers features 70 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“We were at our richest from 1870 to 1913. That’s when we were a tariff country,” said President Donald Trump recently, and he’s not wrong. But tariffs aren’t the whole story. The genius of the Gilded ...