The Gilded Age

Good Morning POU! Let's talk about The Gilded Age. The Gilded Age in United States history is the late 19th century, from the 1870s to about 1900. The term for this period came into use in the 1920s and 1930s and was derived from writer Mark Twain's 1873 novel The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, which satirized an era of serious social problems masked by a thin gold … [Read more...] about Monday Open Thread: African Americans In The Gilded Age