In Trump's idealized framing, America was at its zenith when top hats and shirtwaists were fashionable and typhoid fever ...

We were at our richest from 1870 to 1913. That's when we were a tariff country,” said President Donald Trump recently, and he ...

What we didn’t anticipate was that our new Gilded Age would become even more like its precursor—not only in the seeming concentration of overwhelming wealth into fewer and fewer hands but in the ...

That’s when we were a tariff country,” said President Donald Trump recently, and he’s not wrong. But tariffs aren’t the whole ...

The Gilded Age was the era in the late 19th century ... Many Northern industrial workers, including recent immigrants, were drawn to the Republican Party due to its ties to industrial growth ...

The original Gilded Age is associated with the rise of powerful industrialists ... The labor class faced poor working conditions and low wages. Large numbers of immigrants arrived in the U.S., ...

Award-winning playwright and D.C. resident, Karen Zacarías, wondered why there wasn’t a successful adaptation of Edith ...

The Gilded Age featured extraordinary wealth for a small class of people ... marked by erratic economic growth and that upturns were mostly fueled by millions of immigrants joining the U.S. workforce.