Mark Twain-1871 Andrew Carnegie, 1910. Library of Congress During the "Gilded Age," every man was a potential Andrew Carnegie, and Americans who achieved wealth celebrated it as never before.

It was the Gilded Age, a time of rapid population growth and transformation from an agricultural economy toward a sprawling ...

(RNS) — “The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today” by Mark Twain ... Rauschenbusch remembered most of all the funerals of children who had died preventable deaths because of their poverty.

They called it the ‘Gilded Age’, a window of time in American ... Fellowes has expressed his desire to have a young Violet, with children Robert and Rosamund in tow, make an appearance.

The rise of populism and an increasing rural-urban divide also suggests the need for a second look at the Gilded Age, a period that featured both. In The Republic for Which It Stands: The United ...