Richard White, the historian and author of "The Republic for Which It Stands," explains what made the late 19th century ...

Library of Congress During the "Gilded Age," every man was a potential Andrew ... and even electric lights, yet most people labored in the shadow of poverty. To those who worked in Carnegie's ...

There’s a famous quote, “You don’t know what you got till it’s gone.” Dennis Connors was Central New York’s lead historian ...

We the people were not doing so well at that time. As for Loyola’s praise for the Gilded Age, I can only say he ought to be ...

Now it's returned to something that looks more like the Gilded Age — a maximalist mob-wife ... generationally wealthy people, the famous and beautiful. In a country roiled by recession worries ...