Historically, factory jobs were low paying and grueling. In fact, manufacturing flourished times of economic despair.

In the last half of the 19th ... America's frontier saw new towns spring up along ever-expanding railway lines. A technological revolution had taken hold in the country's cities, with new ...

In the early 19th century, young women were drawn into factory work with the promise of opportunity - but at what cost? The ...

Indeed, immigrants came to America seeking land that they could farm. But throughout the nineteenth century ... farmers found jobs in Baltimore factories. The cities grew at a fabulous pace ...

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

1827 fusion of art and cartography, A Bird's Eye View of Niagara Falls, likely struck 19th-century viewers as highly imaginative. Private Collection / Smithsonian American Art Museum At the start ...