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Dolly Parton Day, celebrated on 9/25 in honor of her song "9 to 5", also lands on the 100th anniversary of Ford Motor Company's adoption of the eight-hour, five-day workweek, which Henry Ford introduced in 1926.

U.S.-Canada trade disputes go back to the 1870s National Policy tariffs and the McKinley Tariff of 1890, but one historian said this current moment is genuinely unprecedented.

For one weekend a year, the shores of Lake Erie in Conneaut, Ohio turn into the beaches of Normandy on D-Day in 1944. It’s the largest WWII reenactment in the U.S., and costs hardly anything to put on.

Despite a major international conflict, markets have remained strong. There’s historical precedent for that.

While a ban on oil and fuel exports could temporarily decrease prices, experts say benefits would be short-lived and cause long-term pain.

As the United States turns 250, we reflect on the defining moments that have shaped the U.S. economy.

The Arab oil embargo of 1973 was a global economic turning point, said Princeton historian Meg Jacobs. 2026 could be too.

Pamela Paul, writer at large for the Wall Street Journal, talks about the decline of “serious” nonfiction titles — from biographies to books about the economy.

In “The Almighty Dollar: 500 Years of the World’s Most Powerful Money,” journalist and financial historian Brendan Greeley looks at why the dollar is the most powerful currency in the world and how that power has shaped the global financial system.

The American colonists had a list of economic grievances, but only one of them involved tea.