Historically, factory jobs were low paying and grueling. In fact, manufacturing flourished times of economic despair.

A partnership between RIT history department, RIT Press, and the Rochester Public Library relaunched the Rochester History ...

Explore Charlotte's breathtaking architectural gems from the historic Mint Museum to the modern Bechtler, showcasing the ...

Upon opening, Morse and Draper’s venture was only the second of its kind in New York, but within months studios had popped up all across the city and ... of this mid-19th-century energy.

Private Collection / Smithsonian American Art Museum At the start of the 19th century, the United States ... mightily to the prosperity of New York City and brought commercial civilization to ...

Steven Preister's house in Washington, D.C. is a piece of American history ... coal itself faced a similar pushback in the early 19th century, when it was the newfangled power source that ...

Confederate soldiers perished there at an alarming rate due to overcrowding and deplorable conditions, according to the American Civil ... and interpreting late 19th-century small-town America.

In other words, for the 2023-24 academic year, they were the outstanding eighth grade performers within the Buffalo City Schools ... It begins in the 19th century with Jesse Ketchum, a ...

Besides shining a spotlight on neighborhood artists as well as on African-American ... New York City’s only preserved 19th-century family home is an elegant, late Federal-Greek Revival house ...

Although he had a conservative reputation in his earlier years, Pope Francis used his role as a world religious leader to ...