In the mid-1890s, notes Paul Campos of the University of Colorado Boulder, per-capita gross domestic product shrank from $6,400 to $5,500 (in 2017 dollars). As of the second quarter this year, it ...

The 1890s sat on the edge of two centuries — still dusty from the Wild West, but already humming with the first flickers of modern life. Horse-drawn carriages rolled past electric streetlights ...