Edward T. O'Donnell

Edward T. O’Donnell is Associate Professor of History at the College of the Holy Cross. Author of several books, including Henry George and the Crisis of Inequality: Progress and Poverty in the Gilded Age, O’Donnell also the hosts the popular American-history podcast In The Past Lane. Follow him on Twitter @InThePastLane.

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A political cartoon from 1883 aimed at wealthy businessmen, including Vanderbilt, that depicts laborers awash in a sea of hard times, struggling to hold up the industries with low wage jobs on their backs as the industrialists and their millions weigh them down.
19th Century

Are We Living in the Gilded Age 2.0 ?

The first Gilded Age saw massive wealth inequalities, hyperpartisanship, virulent anti-immigrant sentiment and growing concern about money in politics. Sound familiar?