(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 ...

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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 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 ...

President Donald Trump’s golden campaign promise of a better life for Americans has morphed into Oval Office gilt and a glittering $300 million ballroom, even as ...

Former Republican speechwriter Tim Miller and MS NOW host Nicole Wallace say the voting public has good reason to be angry at ...

The boomy decades immediately after World War II not only gave Americans rapid economic growth and moonshots but also a popular culture of progress. Walt Disney’s Tomorrowland, The Jetsons, and Star ...

“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 ...