A few weeks ago, while taking two of my now-teenage granddaughters shopping for outfits for a sports banquet, I became nostalgic. As we were walking through Penney’s, I tried to explain to them the ...

One of Amazon’s most recent Prime items has caused a bit of a stir — because it’s a house. You can now buy a house on Amazon and have it shipped directly to your location. But, surprisingly, that’s ...

If you want to know what American life was like during the 20th century, there are two essential resources: LIFE magazine and the Sears Roebuck catalog. Google Books put the entire run of LIFE on the ...

Sears' declaration of bankruptcy this week was entirely expected, a train wreck long in the making. What might have caught many by surprise were the immediate reflections by African-American scholars ...

According to a Realtor.com report, the three-bedroom, 2.5-bathroom, 3,300-square-foot house in Celina, Texas, was originally purchased in 1910 from the Sears catalog. Sears sold as many as 75,000 ...

Sears offered live animals through its mail-order catalogs from 1956 to 1964. However, versions of those catalogs — possibly including an alleged 1956 Sears Christmas book featured in popular TikTok ...

Last week, I featured a gallery of photos of Alabama kit homes bought from Sears, Roebuck and Co. catalogs. While some readers were surprised to learn Sears sold kits for everything from outhouses to ...

“They could only shop at one store, the country store, where prices were high,” says Louis Hyman, an economic historian and assistant professor at Cornell University. “It often was the case that the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CHICAGO — Sears was founded in Chicago and ...

Monday’s announcement that Sears would file for bankruptcy and close 142 stores came as little surprise to anyone who has followed the retail giant’s collapse in recent years. Still, the news inspired ...