Manisha Sinha spoke to Salon about Donald Trump's 19th-century vision and America's history of radical resistance ...

Richard White, the historian and author of "The Republic for Which It Stands," explains what made the late 19th century ...

States competed for capital and labor by keeping their taxes and regulations light and efficient. As a result, America became ...

The Gilded Age featured extraordinary wealth for a small ... growth and that upturns were mostly fueled by millions of immigrants joining the U.S. workforce. Another factor was the seizing of ...

The genius of the Gilded Age was interstate regulatory and tax ... s population nearly tripled during that time, with 30 million immigrants, per capita GDP doubled. Steel production boomed ...