Social, economic and political conditions mirror those seen in the late 1800s. As economic inequality and wealth concentration rise, the U.S. is entering a new era of support for workers' rights ...

The Gilded Age of the late-19th and early-20th centuries displays prominent parallels to the Trump administration’s coziness with the billionaire class, with one caveat.

The Gilded Age has become a hot topic in pop culture, with an HBO show of the same name (seen here filming behind the scenes in New York City). The 2022 Met Gala also had a Gilded Age theme ...

Political cartoons were perhaps the most openly accessible form of sociopolitical commentary in their time, largely abandoning the requirements for highbrow education — or even mere literacy ...

The new Gilded Age has brought personal computers, the iPhone, email, GPS, video games, artificial intelligence (AI), and electric cars—and its own group of moguls.

The Gilded Age—where wealth was concentrated in the hands of industrialists while workers had little agency—provides a useful frame for how the benefits of new technologies disproportionately ...

Welcome to “The Gilded Age,” a PBS documentary about that period in the late 19th century, clearly intended to resonate with the political and income-inequality parallels of today.

Barbara Hayward, a history professor at Lone Star College-Tomball, has been chosen by the National Endowment for the Humanities to attend a one-week academy called "Illustrating the Gilded Age ...

‘We are essentially in a new Gilded Age’: As workers get laid off, CEOs and shareholders gobble up hundreds of billions in profits. Chloe Berger. Updated October 28, 2024 at 12:07 PM.