How did the transcontinental rail system set the stage for the Gilded Age? Richard White: At the end of the Civil War, the United States was a country of vast ambitions and relatively little money.

Photographer Ron Amato had planned to shoot Claybourne Elder — a gay actor known for The Gilded Age as well as his many ... as the power of theater. Amato: Clay was incredibly generous with ...

President Donald Trump, with his usual bombast, has declared that his second term will be a new “golden age” for the country.

After a five-year closure to make way for renovations and expansions, the Frick Collection is returning in glorious form this ...

The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865–1896, the latest installment of the multi-author Oxford History of the United States, historian Richard White delves deeply into ...

"Clay deserves this recognition, because he is eternally and deservedly associated with the art of legislative compromise," says Richard Allan ... at the age of 29—a year younger than the ...

Alison Cohen Rosa/HBO New York Robber barons and society dames provide the drama on season two of The Gilded Age but almost none of the show was filmed in the city. Troy and Albany in Upstate New ...

WASHINGTON — In President Donald Trump's idealized framing, the United States was at its zenith in the 1890s, when top hats and shirtwaists were fashionable and typhoid fever often killed more ...

If you take a look at the last 40 years in the United States in the span of the country's history, it becomes clear that it can justifiably be called a "New Gilded Age," strikingly similar to the ...