A recent op ed by Mario Loyola, a Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, argued that President Trump was largely correct to describe the years from 1870 to 1913, often dubbed the Gilded Age, as a sort of ...

We were at our richest from 1870 to 1913. That's when we were a tariff country,” said President Donald Trump recently, and he ...

The Gilded Age was the era in the late 19th century when business and industry dominated American life as never before or since. It was a period of unprecedented economic growth and technological ...

Powerful labor unions began to form in response to stifling working conditions and child labor. Analyzing the political and economic history of the original “Gilded Age” gives us some examples to ...

the rise of labor in the United States,” said White, author of “The Republic for Which it Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896.” “And the reason ...

It’s no surprise that the booming economy of the Gilded Age was able to sustain tariffs. Of course, that period had its dark sides — political corruption, “Robber Barons,” child labor ...

“This is the height of antimonopoly, political turmoil, the rise of labor in the United States,” said White, author of “The Republic for Which it Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and ...