In fact, Gilded Age cities were dirty in ways we can scarcely imagine ... 1897—right on schedule. Which made it, incidentally, the first free public bath house in the United States.

The Gilded Age was a study in contrasts. Immigrants arrived in New York City with little to nothing ... The box seats were important. Who was sponsoring the performances was important.

Marble House was Alva Vanderbilt's 39th birthday present. She later became a leader in the women's suffrage movement.

During the first years of the Gilded Age, Boss Tweed's Tammany Hall provided more services to the poor than any city government before ... the president and his cabinet were implicated in the ...

Food prices have risen steadily, the hot job market has made ... in the city. Private clubs delineating the space between the haves and the have-nots were a feature of the first Gilded Age.