President Donald Trump, with his usual bombast, has declared that his second term will be a new “golden age” for the country.

Historians, however, might view Trump’s swearing-in through a wider lens: Jan. 20, 2025, could well be remembered as the ...

The first Gilded Age was half a century of American history, and then it was gone. The age was driven out by the automobile, overpowered by world war followed by ...

Some critics have argued the US actually seems to be in something like the Gilded Age, the period in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, after Reconstruction and before the Progressive era ...