For most of my life, I’ve been interested in matters of scale — the extremes, from the unknowable vastness of our universe to ...
The Gilded Age was the era in the late 19th century when business and industry dominated American life as never before or since. It was a period of unprecedented economic growth and technological ...
The original Gilded Age is associated with the rise of powerful industrialists like Andrew Carnegie and John D ... Following the Civil War, a Republican Congress enacted the Pacific Railroad Act, ...
Cornelius Vanderbilt amassed a breathtaking fortune through shipping and railroads, while steel magnate Andrew Carnegie was ...
Cornelius Vanderbilt amassed a breathtaking fortune through shipping and railroads, while steel magnate Andrew Carnegie was also ... That resulted in railroad bankruptcies, a stock market crash ...