It’s been one heck of a run for Sears, and it’s not over yet. The Chicago-based company went from a retail giant with a skyscraper forever embedded into our skyline, to filing for Chapter 11 ...

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 ...

At lunchtime recently, shortly after he heard that the once-mighty Sears company was filing for bankruptcy, Louis Hyman thought, "Huh, I should write some stuff down." Hyman, a historian of capitalism ...

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

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, ...

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 ...

This week's announcement that Sears is closing its Mankato store no doubt brought a flood of memories for anyone over the age of 35. I pick that age because most anyone younger than that remembers ...

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 ...

Leafing through a Sears catalog, circling what you want, may be the brand's biggest gift to our cultural zeitgeist. The telephone-book sized anthology of anything you'd ever need or want stands either ...