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Count on one thing: if Mark Twain, the famed American author of “Tom Sawyer” and “Huckleberry Finn,” were alive today, he ...
The Gilded Age was a period of enormous wealth for some and extreme poverty for others.
The city’s long-standing connection to Black affluence and entrepreneurship is the focus of the latest season of HBO’s The ...
He called himself Gregory Mitchell and worked for what looked like an Astor family fund. But who was he really?
New York City's Fifth Avenue was once home to "Millionaires' Row," where the wealthiest business tycoons of the Gilded Age ...
Few shows bring the past to life quite like “The Gilded Age“. Created by “Downton Abbey’s” Julian Fellowes, this HBO […] ...
The wealthiest families of the Gilded Age lived in enormous mansions outfitted with gold, marble, and priceless art. Take a look inside.
Congress hasn’t raised the $7.25 an hour federal minimum wage since 2009. And politicians have crafted a system that taxes the fruits of that hard labor as much as 37 percent. The rich, on the other ...
The juxtaposition at the weekend was apt: one big, ugly bill in Washington and one big, garish wedding in Venice.
In Johnathan Schultz’s hands, this ancient symbol of wealth becomes a mirror reflecting our fractured world back at us.
In “Stan and Gus,” Henry Wiencek explores the creative highs and private peccadilloes of the architect Stanford White and the ...