Read About The Gilded Age

Women in the Valley of the Kings
by Kathleen. Sheppard

Bringing the untold stories of the women Egyptologists who paved the way of exploration in Egypt, this book, using their travelogues, diaries and maps, upends the grand male narrative of Egyptian exploration and shows how a group of courageous women charted unknown territory, forever changing the field of Egyptology. 
To rescue the republic
by Bret Baier

This follow-up to the acclaimed“Three Days” trilogy presents a riveting reassessment of Ulysses S. Grant, the great Civil War commander whose actions both as a general and as president played an unparalleled role in preserving the U.S. 250,000 first printing.
Savings and Trust
by Justene Hill Edwards

In the years immediately after the Civil War, tens of thousands of former slaves deposited millions of dollars into the Freedman's Bank. African Americans envisioned this new bank as a launching pad for economic growth and self-determination. But only nine years after it opened, their trust was betrayed and the Freedman's Bank collapsed.
Death in the Haymarket
by James R. Green

A study of America's early labor movement and the 1886 Haymarket bombing at a Chicaco labor rally that killed several police officers discusses the events of the infamous attack, its sensational aftermath, and its devastating repercussions in terms of the growing union movement.
Diamonds and Deadlines
by Betsy Prioleau

The first major biography of the unsung hero of women's suffrage, who for 20 years ran Frank Leslie Publishing, the country's largest publishing company while becoming a glamorous and controversial celebrity and tastemaker.
The Republic for Which it Stands
by Richard White

During Reconstruction Northerners attempted to remake the United States in their own image. They would make incarnate the new world Republicans imagined at the end of the Civil War. That new world seemed possible because the Republican Party controlled the Union in 1865 as fully as any political party would ever control the country. The newest volume in the acclaimed Oxford History of the United States series, The Republic for Which It Stands offers a magisterial account of the Gilded Age's real legacy that lies buried beneath its capitalists of legend and its corrupt politicians.
Greed in the Gilded Age
by William Hazelgrove

Recounts the true story of Cassie Chadwick, who, breaking through boundaries of class, education, and gender, conned at least 2 million dollars, equivalent to about 60 million today, from unsuspecting bankers simply by claiming to be the illegitimate daughter and heir of steel titan, Andrew Carnegie.
A Man of Iron
by Troy Senik

Based on in-depth research and newly uncovered details, this biography examines Grover Cleveland's dizzying journey from obscure lawyer to president of the United States in just three years and his leadership during a transformational era in U.S. history.
American rascal
by Greg Steinmetz

This biography of one of the 19th century's greatest robber barons looks at how his brilliance and greed made him richer than Rockefeller and helped fuel Wall Street's first financial reforms.
Thieves' Road
by T. A. Mort

Describes a little-known exploratory mission by General Custer in 1874, who took 1,000 troops deep into the Black Hills of South Dakota where he found gold and started a chain of events that led up to the end of Sioux territorial independence.