The Gilded Age was a period toward the end of the 19th century marked by rapid economic growth and prosperity. Just a few years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1863, the Gilded Age ...
This exceedingly interesting study of old and new money in 19th-century New York City can be read as a companion piece to the fiction of Henry James and, most particularly, Edith Wharton. Eric ...
Our Founding Fathers carefully eliminated in American law every special legal privilege of the old aristocracies of Europe. They strongly favored instead equality under the law, later enshrined in the ...
One of my best friends who I am committed to meet fortnightly for our mutual discussions and conversations on national and international matters asked me an interesting question during our last ...
TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...
Yale Law professor Amy Chua cruised to wide attention several years ago for a supposedly satirical book about shaping her kids into child prodigies with brutal hazing. She recently wrote another book ...
The quest for influence, power and control at all levels of government has long played out through large political contributions and the big bucks paid to lobbyists to accomplish special interest ...
David Somerville: The first thing we did was scrawl a whole bunch of words and images on a whiteboard. One set of images depicted conspicuous consumption: an overflowing bottle of champagne that’s ...
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