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

While thousands of drivers now pass through the hamlet of Guilderland daily, four centuries ago wilderness covered the area.

President Donald Trump intends to make the US a “manufacturing nation once again,” as he put it in his inaugural address, and ...

A conversation with Greg Grandin about his groundbreaking new book America, América: A New History of the New World.