When Andrew Carnegie was 33 years old, in 1868, he wrote himself a letter: "To continue much longer overwhelmed by business cares and with most of my thoughts wholly upon the way to make money in ...

For most of my life, I’ve been interested in matters of scale — the extremes, from the unknowable vastness of our universe to ...

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 ...

What role did Andrew Carnegie play in the steel industry’s transformation? His steel manufacturing factories were built using the Bessemer process. He standardized workplace procedures to bring about ...