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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 ...
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 ...
Richard White, the historian and author of "The Republic for Which It Stands," explains what made the late 19th century ...
But tariffs aren’t the whole story. The genius of the Gilded Age was interstate regulatory and tax competition. That economy boomed. From 1870 to 1913, America’s GDP grew at nearly 5 percent ...