His second inaugural address promised a “golden age,” but the ideas in it evoked the late 1800s more than any recent ...

(RNS) — “The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today” by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner, published in 1873, gave the period from the late 19 th to early 20 th century its most lasting metaphor ...

the Gilded Age princes of commerce and barons of industry built city palaces and country cottages. An excessive show of wealth was not new, but these things were different. In the 19th century, a ...

They argue today's America has all the hallmarks of a new Gilded Age. That age is a reference to the period between post-Civil War reconstruction and the early 20th century and takes its name from ...

STAATSBURG — This winter, enjoy delicious tea and tea fare, while hearing presentations on Gilded Age history, in the palatial formal dining room of a mansion on the Hudson River. Staatsburgh ...