The arrival of the Sears Wish Book catalog was always a monumental event at Christmas, and for kids like my brother, sister ...

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 ...

What do you remember when you hear the name Sears? The answer may depend on how old you are - and if you’ve been keeping up with the news. In recent years, Sears has made headlines as a struggling ...

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 ...

"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 ...

Sears won't be printing its iconic holiday Wish Book this year. It printed the catalog from 1933 to 2011, and once again in 2017. This year, it will only be available online, the Chicago Tribune ...

Sears' declaration of bankruptcy this week was entirely expected, a train wreck long in the making. What might have caught many by surprise were the immediate reflections by African-American scholars ...

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' ...