President Donald Trump, with his usual bombast, has declared that his second term will be a new “golden age” for the country.

Mark Twain-1871 Andrew Carnegie, 1910. Library of Congress During the "Gilded Age," every man was a potential Andrew Carnegie, and Americans who achieved wealth celebrated it as never before.

It’s déjà vu all over again. The robber barons are back. The wealthy have their cottages by the sea in the Hamptons, in ...

The Gilded Age was a study in contrasts. Immigrants arrived in New York City with little to nothing in their pockets, while just uptown some of the richest men and women in America built mansions ...

The first Gilded Age was half a century of American history, and then it was gone. The age was driven out by the automobile, overpowered by world war followed by ...

For the Emmys though, they couldn't be on more opposite ends of the spectrum ­- or timeline. "The Gilded Age" takes place in ...

In the later Gilded Age, this area would be home to Police Headquarters, the Erie County Morgue, Bath House Number One (see my previous post), and a host of business and entertainment venues.

Some critics have argued the US actually seems to be in something like the Gilded Age, the period in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, after Reconstruction and before the Progressive era ...