(By the way, it is properly ‘Russia’, not ‘Russian’, leather. I’ll do a post on this fascinating Gilded Age material in the near future.) Having concluded that Arthur was not coming ...

Is the U.S. in a second Gilded Age? Many in the news media seem to think so: You’ll find the claim in The New Yorker, NPR, Politico, and these pages. The White House, for its part, seems to ...

even more crucial aspect of Gilded Age economics — America’s strong and stable dollar, good as gold. In Mr. Trump’s “idealized framing,” as the Associated Press puts it in a long dispatch, America was ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In President Donald Trump's idealized framing, the United States was at its zenith in the 1890s, when top hats and shirtwaists were fashionable and typhoid fever often killed more ...