Wie Es Eigentlich Gewesen Ist-History As It Actually Happened.

When one thinks of influential people in business in the first part of the 20 th century in the United States, one name that inevitably will come to mind is Henry Ford.   As the founder and driving force behind the Ford Motor Company, Henry Ford demonstrated innovation, business acumen, and forward thinking to create one of the most influential and profitable automobile manufacturers in the United States.   Henry Ford was born in Greenfield Township, Michigan, outside of Detroit on July 30, 1863, the oldest of six children of an immigrant Irish family.   After completing a basic education at home and at the local school, Ford became an apprentice at a machine shop as well as with a watch and jewel repairer.   At sixteen years old, he demonstrated an aptitude for this type of work and moved on from Flower Brother’s machine shop to the Dry Dock Engine Company of Detroit; building steam engines.   By the age of 21, Ford began working for Westinghouse as a “road ...

  Blog Post-Railroads in Kentucky and Kansas   The Civil War brought immense changes to the social, political, and economic landscape of the United States.   America had to heal after four bitter years of war in which brother fought brother, battles had largely destroyed the landscape of the southern states, and the United States saw more deaths than any other war (including non-battle injuries and disease). [1]     In the aftermath of such a terrible conflict, President Lincoln’s vision, also held by his successor, President Johnson, was to heal the nation.   One area which required attention was the economy, and it is important for historians to understand how the economy experienced growth in the postbellum era.     One can measure economic growth in different ways. The 1960s saw a shift in how historians typically had written economic history.   Robert Fogel was one of these new economic historians, and in his work, Railroads and...