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 ...

The Gilded Age was a study in contrasts ... The whole notion of a middle class apartment with one person in a room — that didn’t exist. A single apartment could house multiple extended ...

A sumptuous Gilded Age apartment at a prime Gramercy ... The red brick and terra cotta facade was constructed as a middle class alternative to tenement housing. “It’s a very unique property ...

In his March 26 op-ed, “What made America great in the Gilded Age,” Mario Loyola ... he seems to deride are what created the middle class, which in turn created safer working conditions ...

In announcing his unilateral (and unconstitutional) imposition of global tariffs on April 2, U.S. President Donald Trump ...

bankers and politicians enjoyed extraordinary wealth and opulence at the expense of the working class." Most of the power during the Gilded Age was held by America's wealthy, not politicians.