The Gilded Age The foundations of industrialism (the social system that results from an economy based on large-scale industries) were established in the United States during the first wave of industrialization, or the development of industry, which...

In American history, the "Gilded Age" refers to major growth in population in the U.S. and extravagant displays of wealth and excess of America's upper-class during the post-Civil War and post-Reconstruction era, from the 1870s to 1900. The wealth...

I turn 50 this week. No presents, please -- Globe policy forbids us from accepting gifts worth more than $10. Besides, with baby boomers turning 50 every 7 1/2 seconds, you'd never keep up with demand. Reaching 50 is, I am told, a...

CAROL FLETCHER, STAFF WRITER The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 02-18-2007 Gilded Age revisited By CAROL FLETCHER, STAFF WRITER Date: 02-18-2007, Sunday Section: REAL ESTATE Edtion: All Editions Column: DWELLINGS What do you get in a home for $13.9 million these days?...

Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership That Transformed America, by Les Standiford. Crown, 319 pages, $24.95. In Meet You in Hell, Les Standiford invites readers back to the days when capitalists were capitalists and workers were workers-and when...

In the hurly-burly decades after the Civil War, uptown and downtown, on and off the Bowery and all over Five Points, the New York underworld boasted a roster of real-life shady characters—crooked barkeeps, cops on the take, sundry fences, countless thieves and gangs galore—who could...

In the essay below, Trachtenberg follows the development of Realism during the Gilded Age as a reaction against the sentimentalism of earlier romances and dime novels.

In the following essay, Twigg argues that, in the Gilded Age, middle-class Americans sought to express their individuality, while conforming to the aesthetic ideal, through “tasteful” home decoration, which was documented in the various decorating texts popular among all levels of society.

In the following essay, Dormon examines the popularity during the Gilded Age of ‘coon songs’ (songs about, and many times by, black Americans). Dormon suggests that the songs disseminated racist images and language in order to justify continued segregation and discrimination.

This essay is about how history repeats itself. From 1860-1900, and 1960-2000, there were a string of coincidents in American History that prove that History repeats itself.

Explores American history at the end of the Reconstruction period and the beginning of the Guilded Age. Examine the corruptness and competitiveness that took over the United States government and society. Describes it as an intense competition for control between the Republicans and Democrats.

A look at the Gilded Age (late 1800's) and the reason it is called Gilded Age