As the 19th ... of America was on the move. Advances in technology and a rise in the standard of living had introduced a concept that was previously foreign to the American middle-class: leisure ...

“Middle or upper middle class, which are strata of African American life that have been effectively erased from the bulk of the 19th-century narrative. We’ve been telling a story grounded in ...

But by the end of the 19th century, the industrial social-economic order that tariffs helped foster were quite different from ...

The term "Boston Brahmins" refers to a class of wealthy ... With waves of immigration to America's cities in the middle of the nineteenth century, the position of the wealthy and elite in ...