These men use their vast fortunes to alter federal oversight and bend state policy to favor their corporate operations.

Warning: SPOILERS for The Gilded Age Season 3, Episode 2 - "What the Papers Say" George Russell is the shrewdest businessman in The Gilded Age, but season 3, episode 2, has just introduced another ...

The history of America’s robber barons can be read about in books or watched in documentaries, but one intriguing way to gain an interactive experience and education is with a visit to one of their ...

(WGHP) — The story goes that the writer, Mark Twain, famously said that, “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” There is some question as to whether Twain really said (or wrote) that ...

According to the incoming Trump administration, the answer appears to be two. All eyes are on billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk and, to some degree, Vivek Ramaswamy, as they’ve been tapped to lead ...

It has taken America’s new aristocracy over 100 years of biding their time, but they have finally arrived. Fortune magazine on Feb. 23 wrote, “The 1% want to stand out after years of being stealthy ...

Morgan Spector, who plays extreme capitalist and oil baron George Russell on HBO’s The Gilded Age, is ironically an avowed socialist. Until now, he’s always had fun contrasting, but not combining, the ...

SAN ANTONIO — A free chance to tour a part of the city's underworld that is rarely seen by the public, Robber Baron Cave, is coming up on April 9. The cave, located a mile south of 410 on Nacogdoches ...

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