Henry Ford

Making sense of anti-Semitism today requires examining Henry Ford’s outsize part in its origins.

On the Road with Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, and John Burroughs.

Dearborn, proud home of Henry Ford, has addressed the auto pioneer's anti-Semitism in the 1920s, which flourishes today on extremist websites.

The Dearborn Independent, a newspaper Ford owned, regularly supported and spread anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.

Debunking the quotation that inspired our name.

On March 7, workers at the Ford Rouge River plant marched for better working conditions. Almost a century later, a quiet park honors their memory.

At the very beginning of the auto industry, no less than three radically different design-for-maintenance philosophies fought it out.

The partnership between rabbis and labor that delivered the two-day weekend.

C.R. Patterson & Sons of Greenfield became the first Black-owned automobile manufacturer in 1915. More than a century later, it remains the only known one.

The reasons have to do with the complexity of the transaction, but also with the industry’s explosive growth in its early years.

The farm tractor wasn’t born overnight. Perfecting it led to a three-way battle between Ford, John Deere and International Harvester.

A new history charts the global legacy of Fordist mass production, tracing its appeal to political formations on both the left and the right.

For a century, we’ve loved our cars. They haven’t loved us back.

For now, yesterday is where the money is.

My father was pro-Jewish propaganda when the country had an anti-semitism problem - he even met the man that inspired much of the hate. But is history repeating itself?

America’s most iconic automaker plans to drive almost all of their passenger sedans into the sunset by 2020.

An in-depth reckoning with the Gates Foundation as a discrete actor is long overdue.

Jews in the industry called for the Academy Museum to highlight the men who created the movie business. A voice in my head went, Uh-oh.

Panic about Catholics, Freemasons, and, later, Jews, is deeply woven into American history, and forms the basis of our fertile culture of conspiracy theorizing.

On the St. Louis theme park that never made it past the drawing board.