From the early ironworks to 21st Century innovation, Merthyr Tydfil has always been a town in transition. While heavy ...

Jobs, growth and resilience are all worthy aims. Unfortunately, however, the idea that promoting manufacturing is the way to ...

In the 2000s alone America shed nearly 6m factory jobs. Such work often offered high-school leavers a route to a stable, ...

How has white Christian nationalism changed since the Gilded Age? A religion scholar compares the Social Gospel with the ...

My family used to own a restaurant back in the early 1900s. This was handed down to me, and I wonder if it was used when they ...

This 18th century fire alarm that you'd need to hit with a hammer to alert the village of a fire: 6.This 18th century machine ...

There weren't any laws against abortion in the U.S. until the 19th century—and as those laws grew more restrictive, many women sought abortions in secret. Surgeon George T. Strother, shown at ...