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After forty years of exemplary service, Marjorie McNinch, Hagley’s extraordinary Reference Archivist, is retiring.

Since the beginning of the automotive age, there has been almost no end to the specialization found among commercial vehicles. The business community quickly sought to utilize and profit from the new horseless carriage, yet it took a while fo

Since its earliest days, the Hagley Museum and Library has collected records on the iron and steel industry in America.

In his book Hobbies: Leisure and the Culture of Work in America, Steven Gelber points out that prior to 1950 less than one-third of American homeowners painted their own houses.

Experts in generational studies have a wide range of hypotheses about what separates the millennial generation of today from their parents and grandparents, but one theme that commonly emerges concerns manners. Some have argued that young peo

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