Affluent society enjoyed luxurious surroundings like these grounds of a casino at Newport, Rhode Island

The Ku Klux Klan used terrorism and violence against African-Americans to assert white supremacy.

Isaac Bassett, by Freeman Thorp, 1876

Young Native Americans are shown at work on tribal lands, 1901

Election scene at Washington, June 3, 1867, sketched by A.W. M’Callum.

Speaker Thomas B. Reed, by John Singer Sargent, 1891

Joseph Gurney Cannon, by Freeman Thorp, 1904

Next!, by Udo Keppler, Puck, September 7, 1904

The Summerhouse

Statue of Abraham Lincoln, by Vinnie Ream, 1870