The 1929 stock-market crash is one of those pivot points historians use to neatly divide history. Before, there was the ...

The comparisons between the international financial crisis and the beginning of the Great Depression may seem overblown, but at the rate international stock markets are falling, the word "crash" is ...

Part One, America discovers the modern: The jazz age -- Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and Insull -- And then came Ford -- Transformations: New York City -- The view from below: Muncie, Indiana -- ...