Sears’ bankruptcy filing on Monday drummed up plenty of nostalgia for its heyday as the world’s biggest retailer. As Hoffman Estates-based Sears Holdings Corp. works to save its business, there’s no ...

We check in on an Iowa home or two ordered from a Sears Catalog in the 1920s. To commemorate Mail Order Catalog Day on August 18, we’ll check in on an Iowa home or two ordered from a Sears Catalog in ...

Sears sold mail-order kit homes from 1908 to 1942, ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars. Few Sears kit homes were sold in Florida, likely due to shipping logistics and the homes' ...

Before Amazon became the one-stop shop for practically everything, there was the Sears catalog. With one-fifth of Americans as subscribers, the catalog dominated the market and impacted the lives of ...

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 ...

Retail giant Sears has filed for bankruptcy. Historian Louis Hyman of Cornell reflects with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly on the impact the Sears catalog had for African-Americans during the Jim Crow era.

"What most people don't know is just how radical the catalog was in the era of Jim Crow," Louis Hyman, an associate professor of history at Cornell University, wrote in a Twitter thread that was ...

Sep. 5—TAMAQUA — Jim Hain believes his grandparents, Charles and Catherine Houser, ordered a new house from a Sears, Roebuck and Co. catalog in the late 1920s or early 1930s. "The house was complete, ...

One thing that's a bargain at Sears Roebuck & Co. these days: stock prices. Sears is now 35 cents a share — a drop of 16 percent since the fabled 126-year-old retail giant announced it had filed for ...

From heroin to houses, Sears had it all. But before the Chicago business became America’s largest retailer—and affixed its name to the world’s tallest building—Sears started by selling time. In 1886, ...

When I heard the news that Sears may finally be going out of business, I had two reactions: 1) You mean it’s still in business? And 2) How are children supposed to learn about the world’s vast array ...

Sears, as it limps toward the holiday season under bankruptcy protection, is seen as the great-grandma of retail - too old and stodgy to keep up in the age of Amazon. But back in its prime, Sears ...