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 ...

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

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

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 ...

A new age of industrial policy is at hand. Governments have been increasingly intervening in the private sector as they have struggled to cope with the pandemic, rising geopolitical tensions ...