A look at the role of state policies in North-South economic divergence and in American industrial development leading up to the Civil War. In 1796, famed engin

This printers, publishers and booksellers index is modeled after Bristol's Index of Printers, Publishers and Booksellers Indicated by Charles Evans in his Ameri

Presents an overview of the history of American labor using excerpts from primary source documents, short biographies of influential people, and more.

Because of its strong agrarian roots, the South has typically been viewed as a region not favorably disposed to innovation and technology. Yet innovation was ne