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

On May 20, 1875, delegates from a group of 17 countries gathered in Paris to sign what may be the most overlooked yet ...

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

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

A collection of indelible photographs, maps and “intimate guides” from 1807 to 1940 went beyond extolling the virtues of the ...

Disco music’s time in the sun may have passed, but the legacy of “The Hustle,” a mega hit in the genre, lives on Jump in the bean-themed ball pit, solve a pork puzzle and pose with a ...

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

The Marlette Flume was hardly Nevada’s only 19th-century engineering wonder: the Silver State’s rise was built on ambitious ...

To celebrate the beginning of our 20th year, we’ve set out to catalogue the contributions that Pittsburgh and western ...

A woman saved a decrepit building in the ’70s and turned it into, among other things, an art museum, an opera house and a ...

The fractured sense of time that F. Scott Fitzgerald creates challenges literary convention. It also reflects a world in flux ...