fromArchitectural Digest
1 day agoBest Known for Its Gilded Age Architecture, Newport, Rhode Island, Is Also Home to Rich Black History
The Gilded Age period in US history in the late 19th century was a time of great economic expansion, European immigration, industrialization, and widespread political corruption. Coined by author Mark Twain, it describes an era of social ills masked by materialist excess, arising only a decade after the formal abolition of slavery in 1865.
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