My mother gave me the coolest thing ever — the 1964 Spring and Summer edition of the Sears Catalog. No one comes to my house and sees it without gasping and wanting to flip through the pages to see ...

The Legend of Zelda is one of the most popular video game franchises out there, and after 35 years of activity, it's also one of the oldest video game franchises out there. This classic Nintendo ...

A home in McCandless that was ordered from a Sears catalog in 1922 is now on the market. The house at 8828 Memorial Drive was one of the many home kits sold in the United States through the mail-order ...

"What most people don't know is just how radical the catalog was in the era of Jim Crow," Louis Hyman, an associate professor of history at Cornell University, wrote in a Twitter thread that was ...

The world may say goodbye to Sears, but the company's assemble-it-yourself homes will live on. Kit houses were available in Sears’ catalog books from 1908 to 1940. Shoppers could flip through the ...

WILMORE, Kan. (KSNW) – A century-old historic house in Wilmore, Kansas is one of 75,000 Sears and Roebuck Catalog houses sold in the early 1900s. From the old-fashioned doorbell to the plaque outside ...

Thanks to the Internet, you can buy just about anything online and have it shipped to you in a few days or less. The process is reminiscent of the early 1900s, when people turned to mail-order ...

At lunchtime Monday, shortly after he heard that the once-mighty Sears company was filing for bankruptcy, Louis Hyman thought, “Huh, I should write some stuff down.” Hyman, a historian of capitalism ...

FALL RIVER — Before there was Amazon Prime, there was the Sears, Roebuck & Co. Catalog. The retail giant's catalog, printed from 1892 to 1993, featured any product an American consumer could ever need ...