As an archivist and historian, the National Canal Museum’s Martha Capwell Fox knows a lot about the Lehigh Valley’s contribution to America’s Industrial Revolution. But it is also personal. This ...

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It wasn’t all Bleak House and Oliver Twist. According to historian Griffin (A Short History of the British Industrial Revolution), the negative impact of the Industrial Revolution has been grossly ...

This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed we go back in time for a historical conversation about the role patents have played with respect to innovation, and push back on the myth that patents were not ...

The industrial revolution stands out as a time of great prosperity and expansion as America entered the modern era. But what were the pitfalls of such rapid growth and who turned out to be the victims ...

The history department held a talk Wednesday with three of its professors to celebrate the release of their books in the past year, ranging in topics from Latin American independence to the Industrial ...

Global comparisons of previous social and economic upheavals suggest that what is to come depends on where you are now, argues Robert C. Allen. Today is not the first time that people have worried ...