Derek Thompson: The driving of the golden spike at Promontory Point in 1869 marked the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad. The Gilded Age begins just after and extends into the early 1900s.

"We don't think of railroads as high-tech, but they were high-tech in those days." While the Gilded Age was marked by extravagance, O'Donnell noted that it was also characterized by feelings of ...

Railroad corporations in the Gilded Age amassed so much power that they even got to decide what time it was. Until 1883, time was a local affair, governed by church bells, work whistles and the ...

The Gilded Age has been a big success for HBO, and the network confirmed the third season merely days after the second season ...

The First Gilded Age revealed glitter on the surface ... In the 19th century, it was railroads, steel and oil. Today, it’s technology, finance and pharmaceuticals. The influence of corporate ...

The Gilded Age season 3 finally has a release month and ... aims to revolutionize the railroad industry. Following the Opera War, the old guard is weakened and the Russells stand poised to take ...

Tom Scott, who has one of the first great railroad fortunes, is very, very involved in politics. The Gilded Age barons owned newspapers like Jeff Bezos, they are people who are intimately involved ...

Hard to believe, but it's almost June. The weather is getting warmer, school is getting out, and, of course, the new list of ...

Here’s the season 3 logline: “The American Gilded Age was a period of immense economic ... on a gambit that could revolutionize the railroad industry — if it doesn’t ruin him first.

The Gilded Age Season 3 has set its premiere window for ... Camp will portray JP Morgan, a formidable foe to Morgan Spector’s railroad tycoon George Russell. Uggams will play Mrs. Ernestine ...