How patrons of the arts became plutocrats aboard yachts. I n the early 1500s, an unknown wealthy patron is said to have ...

Nineteenth-century activists revolutionized attitudes toward nonhuman animals amid cultural, economic, and moral shifts in a rapidly changing nation.

The government is larger today than it was back then, so there was less interest on the part of the oligarchs of the day to ...

President Donald Trump is modeling his presidency on the example set by William McKinley during the Gilded Age of territorial ...

Over a century ago, we had the wealthy "robber barons" controlling our government. The likes of Carnegie, Vanderbilt, Morgan, and Rockefeller paid off politicians to look the other way while they ...

Two separate hunts for family history show how this new era for genealogy benefits Black families and history.

Hartford has been built on innovation for more than 300 years—innovation in arts and literature, innovation in governing, ...

Many presidents use tariffs to force negotiations. But for President Trump, they are the point, a source of revenue as he ...