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The Lot of a Steel Worker. The life of a 19th-century steel worker was grueling. Twelve-hour shifts, seven days a week. Carnegie gave his workers a single holiday-the Fourth of July; for the rest ...
Rerum Novarum also had a profound influence on the Catholic Church itself. The document inaugurated what’s now known as ...
Henry Carey also believed tariffs could help American workers. Unfortunately, they didn't. Trump is not alone in his support for tariffs. ... But by the end of the 19th century, ...
Arabbing, the centuries-old Baltimore tradition of selling items out of a horse-drawn wagon, persists today despite being on ...
Jade Luiz, who documents 19th-century sex work, is training students in the basics of excavation and documentation.