Andrew Carnegie

Telegraph operators were the first to know news of the Civil War.

For well over a hundred years, paleontology has done double duty as mass entertainment.

How did the “moral economy”—a concept that once encompassed a radical critique of capitalism—become the province of billionaires?

“I am frightened by the proportions of my prosperity,” Twain said. “It seems to me that whatever I touch turns to gold.”

From log cabins to Gilded Age mansions, how you lived determined where you belonged.

A desire to fish created an epic 1889 flood.

Imported from Europe, the custom of leaving gratuities began spreading in the U.S. post-Civil War. It was loathed as a master-serf custom.

In 1883, heavy-weight boxing champion John L. Sullivan embarked on a tour of the country that would make him a sports superstar.

There was a time when Americans valued 'competency' over riches and saw wealth as the cause of poverty.

Viewed purely in terms of statistics, the recycling of the Gilded Age moniker makes sense, but comparison masks what’s unique about today’s inequality crisis.

Robert Engler's award-winning 1955 investigation into the oil industry.