This holiday is a day dedicated to honoring contributions and achievements of American workers who are the backbone ... we first have to go back to the 19th century and the Industrial Revolution.

But by the end of the 19th century, the industrial social-economic order that tariffs helped foster were quite different from ...

During a renovation project, workers dug for soil samples and stumbled upon a century-old coffin under the school. Take a ...

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 of the year they worked ...

To meet demand, hospitals relied on rural workers who gathered the wild animals. Leech gatherer, unsurprisingly, was a distinctly unenviable job in the 19th century, but the work was reliable.

At the heart of the legal saga is an agreement that dates back over a century. In 1872 ... said in court filings that it can “conduct its work more efficiently in other locations” rather ...