Sure, you're familiar with ordering curtains or clothing from a Sears catalog. And following instructions to assemble a model airplane is nothing out of the ordinary. But how about ordering a house ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sears' mail-order catalogs from the 1950s and 1960s offered dogs, ponies, monkeys, and other animals for purchase. Sears offered live animals through its mail-order catalogs from 1956 to 1964. However ...

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 ...

When you think of Sears today, you may think of a place at the mall where you'd buy tools or a pair of jeans. But if you turn the dial back a century, the Sears, Roebuck and Co. catalog was also a way ...

"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 ...