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.

Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano erupted again on May 25, spewing lava fountain into the air as it entered Episode 23 of its ongoing eruptive phase. According to USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, the ...

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, ...

(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 ...

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 ...

The problem is that investors may now have unreasonable expectations. International Business Machines (NYSE:IBM) experienced a price move of approximately 12% over the last month, coinciding with ...

Throughline is a time machine. Each episode, we travel beyond the headlines to answer the question, "How did we get here?" We use sound and stories to bring history to life and put you into the ...