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

Donald Trump has cited the Gilded Age era as an inspiration – but experts say it was rife with government and business ...

What exactly was the original “Gilded Age” in American history, the period from the 1870s to the late 1890s? What can we learn from those years that may be useful in understanding Trump’s second term?

President Trump has been touting tariffs for the economic bonanza during those years, but an honest dollar made it a monetary ...

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 ...

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

The Gilded Age was the era in the late 19th century when business and industry dominated American life as never before or since. It was a period of unprecedented economic growth and technological ...

In President Donald Trump’s idealized framing, the country thrived in the 1890s, when tariffs were high, but historians say ...