Jane Addams showed how the seeds of social change can be planted at the local level even as the wealthy gain power and ...

The government is larger today than it was back then, so there was less interest on the part of the oligarchs of the day to ...

In the U.S., only 3.5% of billionaires have entered politics unlike China (36%) and Russia (21%). Yet, the plutocratization ...

HBO’s acclaimed historical TV show, The Gilded Age, will return with a new season sometime this year. The show will explore the era of divorce in 19th-century American society.

A millionaire twice over in an era when a dollar was worth 100 pennies, a Gilded Age Berkshire Cottager was asked by a real estate broker what he would think if his adjoining property were sold to ...

One result of the Gilded Age was that its excess made the case for the advent of the Progressive Era, in which Americans realized the value of protecting workers, increasing wages, decreasing ...

Coon’s back-to-back starring roles on The Gilded Age and The White Lotus ... ‘We will make this work.’ This is one of those must-do jobs that come along every now and then”), the White ...