The Gilded Age was an era of rapid economic growth and ... and listening to and reading the news became leisure-time activities for the middle class and wealthy. Economic disparities between ...

The middle class whispered fearfully of "carnivals of revenge." For immediate relief, the urban poor often turned to political machines. During the first years of the Gilded Age, Boss Tweed's ...

Those who did the backbreaking work of mining and harvesting raw materials and who produced the goods from those materials were left behind. | Opinion ...

The Gilded Age featured extraordinary wealth for a small class of people that largely obscured rampant poverty for many other Americans. The name comes from a 1873 novel, co-written by Mark Twain ...

Was America really at its wealthiest from 1870 to 1913? The Gilded Age featured extraordinary wealth for a small class of people that largely obscured rampant poverty for many other Americans.

Was America really at its wealthiest from 1870 to 1913? The Gilded Age featured extraordinary wealth for a small class of people that largely obscured rampant poverty for many other Americans.