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So one thing I've been on a kick of wanting to learn more about recently is the Gilded Age. It seems like an incredibly interesting period of time and recently I've been reading a Garfield biography which is a nice small window into the upper level politics of the time.
What's some other suggested reading I should be doing on the time period, be it politics, biographies of presidents/other important people like James G. Blaine or business tycoons, the development of the railroads, social history of the period, the West/frontier... anything really although maybe not straying too much into Marxist "EVERYTHING WAS BAD" territory or at least some stuff to balance that out.
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>"maybe not straying too much into Marxist "EVERYTHING WAS BAD" territory or at least some stuff to balance that out"
This makes it difficult. Usually people writing about it also praise the so-called progressive era and later, FDR, Great Society etc. All things that sound good but there are legitimate questions and controversies about them. Textbook history is just the worst.
Historians are rarely interested in economics.
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>era of rapid economic growth, industrialisation, expansion of schools and hospitals and wage growth of 60% despite the massive influx of immigrants
>people only talk about "muh inequality"
It was a great time, OP.
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Carnegie did nothing wrong
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>>593221
>gilded age
/his/ is for discussion of events 25 years or longer ago not current events
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>>593337
>Historians are rarely interested in economics.
this but economists love history
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>>593837
What do you mean?
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