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.

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

A Gilded Age mansion on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue is back on the market for $49.9 million, roughly $23 million less than what ...

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

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The family-run atelier, which specializes in salvaging and replicating wood paneling dating back to the 16th century, grew to ...

but certainly the emphasis that Trump makes on industrialization in the United States, the tariff, his courting of the ...

The start of President Trump's new term and the rapidly developing tech space are drawing parallels to the Gilded Age of U.S. history. The term, coined by writer Mark Twain, refers to a period from ...

(RNS) — “The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today” by Mark ... the concentration of business, industrial and commercial, in the hands of a few; and the law of competition between these, as being ...