Workers at General Motors occupied factories for 44 days in Flint, controlling irreplaceable auto body dies. Michigan’s ...

Discover how American agriculture tripled its farms and population from 1860–1910, marking the most dramatic expansion in U.S. farming ...

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This timeline was excerpted from Ellis Island and the Peopling of America: The Official Guide, by Virginia Yans-McLaughlin and Marjorie Lightman, with the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation ...

Between the end of the Civil War in 1865 and the early 20th century, the United States witnessed a rapid economic transformation. This industrial boom—known as the Second Industrial Revolution—was the ...