We were at our richest from 1870 to 1913. That's when we were a tariff country,” said President Donald Trump recently, and he ...

Was America really at its wealthiest from 1870 to 1913? The Gilded Age featured extraordinary wealth for a small class of people that largely obscured rampant poverty for many other Americans. Many ...

While many small farmers and working-class people in the Gilded Age supported the Democratic Party, factors like ethnicity, geography, partisan loyalty and religion divided the broader working class.

but a recent article commented on his adoration of the Gilded Age of the 1890s. What would his ideal 1890s-style government look like? “We the people” would be those with assets of $1 million ...

Donald Trump has cited the Gilded Age era as an inspiration – but experts say it was rife with government and business ...

And if the president gets his way, part of that new Gilded Age will be something called gold ... And the entitlement crunch, with not enough people paying into Social Security and Medicare to ...

In President Donald Trump’s idealized framing, the United States was at its zenith in the 1890s. The Republican has said ...

The Gilded Age featured extraordinary wealth for a small class of people that largely obscured rampant poverty for many other Americans. The name comes from a 1873 novel, co-written by Mark Twain ...

Was America really at its wealthiest from 1870 to 1913? The Gilded Age featured extraordinary wealth for a small class of people that largely obscured rampant poverty for many other Americans.