Macy’s vs Gimbels - Wartime Wagers | 5

It’s the 1960s and as Americans flee cities for the suburbs, Macy’s and Gimbels face tough choices. How do they compete with the rise of discount retailers and the exciting new shopping palaces known as malls? Weakened by industry disruption, both stores become vulnerable to t ...

In 1896, Henry Ford puttered around Detroit streets testing his “Quadricycle.” This was the whimsical beginning to a revolution that redesigned the landscape of America.

Cars changed the way America lived, worked, ate, shopped, and listened to music. And more than 100 ye ...

In 1940, Pepsi President Walter Mack makes headlines by hiring a team of Black salesmen to target African American customers in a new “special markets” division. The pioneering sales team ventures into the Jim Crow south, where they build Pepsi’s brand loyalty among the Black ...

Zwischen den Unternehmen herrscht ein harter Wettbewerb. Nike gegen Adidas. Aldi gegen Lidl. McDonald’s gegen Burger King. Manchmal geht es um das große Geld oder die Aufmerksamkeit der Kunden. Und manchmal geht es im Wettbewerb einfach nur darum, der Konkurrenz eins auszuwischen ...  Show more

We talked to bestselling novelist Philippa Gregory about her views of history and historical fiction, and her perspective on the Wars of the Roses, where she has spent many years.

You can listen to the back catalog of Tides of History, completely ad-free, only on Stitche ...

The Civil War and its decades-long aftermath continue to define American life well into the twenty-first century. Today we chat with Stanford's Professor Richard White, author of The Republic For Which It Stands: The United States During Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, ...