The Gilded Age was a period of enormous wealth for some and extreme poverty for others.

Count on one thing: if Mark Twain, the famed American author of “Tom Sawyer” and “Huckleberry Finn,” were alive today, he would certainly have written a novel about Donald Trump. After all, his 1873 ...

The Gilded Age of the late-19th and early-20th centuries displays prominent parallels to the Trump administration’s coziness with the billionaire class, with one caveat.