The Gilded Age was the era in the late 19th century when business and industry dominated American life as never before or ...

With the United States entering an era of increasing wealth inequality — interspersed with calls for social change and societal upheaval — some experts are likening the 2020s to a second ...

Tweed, the boss of the Tammany Hall Democratic ... In addition to federal contracts and subsidies, the capitalist powers of the Gilded Age also benefited from government allocation of resources.