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.

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.

In the later Gilded Age, this area would be home to ... was about 100,000 and growing fast, yet there were many people still living in the city who could remember when the Erie Canal had opened ...