What we didn’t anticipate was that our new Gilded Age would become even more like its precursor—not only in the seeming ...

Jane Addams showed how the seeds of social change can be planted at the local level even as the wealthy gain power and ...

Their work earned them the Lucy G. Moses Preservation Award in 2022. A key reason was their hiring choice of architect Samuel ...

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How much does the average American have in savings? Age tends to have a lot to do with it. Generally, as people get older, they are likely to have more savings. But what the average person has in ...

As president, he restored prosperity after a terrible depression, quickly won a war with Spain, and broke the Gilded Age’s political stalemate, ushering in a 36-year period of Republican domination.

A Gilded Age mansion on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue ... The seller, he explained, is “so passionate about the history and architecture of the house,” and after purchasing the property for ...

Here are T&C’s picks for the best books of February 2025. Olivia Wolfgang-Smith's sophomore novel, Mutual Interest, is set shortly after the Gilded Age in New York City. The story is a queer ...

Instead he’s exploring how we got to this point, and the result is a fascinating history of what he calls the attention age. Hayes’ book describes how attention has become a commodity, with social ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. THE AGE OF CHOICE: A History of Freedom in Modern Life, by Sophia Rosenfeld For centuries the ...