A major labor law dispute simmered for decades. At its center? Women being paid to do piecework on knitting machines in their homes.

In early Modern Europe, suicide was a sin to be punished with eternal damnation. Some women found an awful workaround: committing murder.

The Ferris wheel may not have been a new idea, but the revolving structure offered fun—from the fairgrounds to the classroom.

Once a key element in Native economies of the region, clams and oysters became a reliable source of free protein for working-class and poor urban dwellers.