In President Donald Trump’s idealized framing, the United States was at its zenith in the 1890s. The Republican has said ...

When, in the nineteen-nineties, people decided that we were living in a new Gilded Age, the meaning was plain. The term, borrowed from the 1873 Mark Twain novel of the same name—a mediocre book ...

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

In President Donald Trump's idealized framing, the United States was at its zenith in the 1890s, when top hats and ...

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 ...

President Trump foresees “a period of transition” before his tariffs replicate the Gilded Age economic boom. With opponents warning about that “pain,” he can look to predecessors of that era for ...

It was a real deep mystery. Researchers have finally discovered the final resting spot of the historic Gilded Age ship Western Reserve — closing the book on a caper that has endured for over a ...

The New England estate was part of Gilded Age industrialist William Ziegler’s massive spread and comes with a newer ...