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 ...

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 ...

At some point in the mid-19th century, more than 100 academies — precursors to today’s pubic and private high schools — from Hudson in Columbia County, to Flatbush in Brooklyn, as well as Utica, ...

It's a dark fantasy retelling of the late 19th century War of Canudos, where the military forces of the newly-formed Brazilian Republic killed as many as 25,000 inhabitants of the backcountry ...

“Tracing Mary Ann Shadd Cary’s Footsteps in Mid‑19th Century Black Toronto.” The presentation is to run from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m It’s a joint presentation of the city’s Glanmore National ...

Photo: Stephen Emms But what of the historic pile? Built in the late 1860’s in the Corinthian style, it was a place of worship for almost a century before the London Drama Centre took over in 1963.

Located northeast of downtown Ottawa, this district is an example of suburban planning traditions of the late 19th century. The Honourable Mona Fortier, Member of Parliament for ...

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