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 ...

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 ...

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 ...