By America's 100th birthday, people traveled by steamboat and buggy, communicated via telegrams, and the Gilded Age was afoot ...

Against a backdrop of economic turbulence, an economist and a political scientist find that changing tastes and new technology may be ushering in an age of craftsmanship.

It was the site of America’s first industrial revolution. Now it’s prepared to usher in a second one. Read Full Article » ...