It was a real deep mystery. Researchers have finally discovered the final resting spot of the historic Gilded Age ship Western Reserve — closing the book on a caper that has endured for over a ...

The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today—which lampooned the rampant greed and graft that followed the conclusion of the Civil War. Buffalo’s population in 1866—only a year after the end of those ...

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

For 133 years, the cold, dark waters of Lake Superior held onto one of its most haunting secrets - the final resting place of the Western Reserve, a massive steel steamer of the Gilded Age that ...

Investopedia / Mira Norian The Gilded Age, characterized by extreme wealth inequality and industrialized growth, was an American era that lasted from the late 1870s until the early 1900s.

To their many critics, these “robber barons” of the Gilded Age stood for “immorality, dishonesty, and graft,” as American writer Jackie Craven states. However, as so-called “captains of ...

Mark Twain-1871 Andrew Carnegie, 1910. Library of Congress During the "Gilded Age," every man was a potential Andrew Carnegie, and Americans who achieved wealth celebrated it as never before.

The day after that inauguration, historian Beverly Gage “couldn’t stop thinking about the Gilded Age” and its “rapid technological change as well as stark inequality, corporate graft and ...