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 ...

They were very much frontier societies, reliant for their growth on immigration. At least until the later 19th century, the bulk of the immigrants came from rural Wales, giving rise to a largely ...

"The Industrial Revolution and its consequences," reads the opening lines of "Unabomber" Ted Kaczynski's notorious manifesto, "have been a disaster for the human race." Kaczynski, who recently ...

An article about the effect of the industrial revolution on the Welsh language, ... As the 19th century progressed, the rate of immigration from outside Wales increased.

Then, later in the century, there was a wave of working-class immigration from overseas, notably Jewish Eastern Europeans escaping discrimination and pogroms, and Italians escaping rural poverty. But ...