Experts on the era say Trump is idealizing a time rife with government and business corruption, social turmoil and inequality ...

The desire to recreate the Gilded Age is fueled by Trump’s fondness for tariffs. It’s also why he praises the nation’s 25th ...

McKinley, Garfield point the way for the 47th president. President Trump foresees “a period of transition” before his tariffs ...

Two protective oceans, new industrial wealth, legal limits on the military, and few foreign threats led even the U.S. Navy in the Gilded Age to often see its ... an elegantly simple solution to the ...

The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896.” “And the reason was, people did not regard this as a particularly healthy economy.” In his inaugural address ...

the United States was at its zenith in the 1890s, when top hats and shirtwaists were fashionable and typhoid fever often killed more soldiers than combat. It was the Gilded Age, a time of rapid ...