There may be reasons to idolize the past — better music, cooler cars — but greater prosperity is not among them.

By the 1860s, steam power and coal became vital, further advancing industrialization and transforming America into a manufacturing powerhouse. Keywords Industrial Revolution, early American ...

In pre-industrial America, the household was the center of production ... Women's visibility as wage earners during the early Industrial Revolution was precedent setting, and has enduring relevance to ...

The Industrial Revolution was a period of history that ... The cotton from the American plantations was grown and harvested by enslaved Africans. The conditions that they lived and worked in ...

While the Industrial Revolution led to progress in science ... Many emigrated abroad to nations such as Canada, America, and Australia. Many more arrived in Scotland to look for work.