At a time when America struggled -- often violently -- to sort out the competing claims of democracy and individual gain, Carnegie championed both. He saw himself as a hero of working people, yet he ...

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1920. 8vo, xiv+385 pp. Illustrated. $6.00. DR. HOLMES’S familiar parable of the Three Johns may be applied with great aptness to the whole art of biography.

Few figures in modern history illustrate the transformative power of education and philanthropy as vividly as Andrew Carnegie. Born into poverty in Scotland and raised in the industrial towns of the ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Andrew Carnegie was a titan of the steel industry, one of the country’s ...

In 1904, 180 Americans were trapped by fire in a Pennsylvania coal mine. Two heroes went in to save them, but the rescuers and all but one of the miners perished. Still, that act of heroism touched ...