Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
In United States history, the Gilded Age is described as the period from about the late 1870s to the late 1890s, which occurred between the Reconstruction Era and the Progressive Era. It was named by 1920s historians after Mark Twain 's 1873 novel The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today .
The Second Gilded Age is a controversial proposed time period of United States history that is proposed to have begun between the 1980s and 2010s up to the current day. The Second Gilded age is so named for its resemblance to the Gilded Age of the 1870s to 1890s, a period marked by laissez-faire capitalism and political corruption .
The journal publishes scholarly articles and book reviews relating to the period between 1865 and 1920 in the United States.This range covers the eras of American history referred to by historians as the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era.
The Gilded Age is an American historical drama television series created and written by Julian Fellowes for HBO that is set in the United States during the Gilded Age, the boom years of the 1880s in New York City. Originally announced in 2018 for NBC, it was later announced in May 2019 that the show was moved to HBO. [1]
During the Gilded Age, Cornelius Vanderbilt was America's richest man with an estimated net worth of $100 million, or around $200 billion in today's currency.
The term "Gilded Age," coined by Mark Twain and derived from the practice of coating surfaces in a decorative layer of gold, was meant to critique the underbelly of inequality, exploitation, and ...
In The Gilded Age, The Breakers' Great Hall and Music Room act as Bertha Russell's (played by Carrie Coon) ballroom. This work of Neo-Italian Renaissance architecture was built between 1893 and ...
U.S. Bureau of the Census. "Chapter R: Communications" in Historical Statistics of the United States (1976) online, statistics on telephones and telegraph; Wheen, Andrew. Dot-Dash to Dot.Com: How Modern Telecommunications Evolved from the Telegraph to the Internet (Springer Praxis, 2010) excerpt; Winston, Brian.