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

It was a period of unprecedented economic ... Railroad corporations in the Gilded Age amassed so much power that they even got to decide what time it was. Until 1883, time was a local affair ...

It was the Gilded Age, a time of rapid population growth and transformation ... with a broader brush and says, ’Look, this entire period with fiscal surpluses we grew rapidly.’ ...