During the years after the Civil War, America embraced an economic philosophy called laissez-faire, celebrating the notion ...

Two centuries later, a number of women in Oakland are recreating the Underground Railroad quilt. It’s one of the annual ...

By the mid-1800s the concept of interchangeable parts ... benefited from interchangeability, the steam engine, sewing machines, telegraphs, and more.

The rise of digital music... Garment manufacturing requires sewing machines, which help to join various parts of a garment. There are different kinds of sewing machines, depending on their ...

The work of the African American quilters Laverne Brackens and Sherry Byrd, who continue the thread of the family tradition, ...

Learn why sewists prefer to sew with their antique Singer Featherweights over modern sewing machines. It's not just because ...

(Gazette archives) The power station’s history goes back to the construction ... paper and oat mills, sawmills, machine shops and electric light works, according to a 1900 Iowa City Press ...

As a historical interpreter, researcher, artist, and designer, Cheyney McKnight incorporates 18th and 19th-century African American design skills to create pieces with a modern twist.

The 1800s saw the Pound Sterling to US Dollar (GBPUSD) exchange rate by and large maintain a rate of around $5 to every £1 with the notable deviations from the rate seen to be aligned with ...