Cathedrals of Industry

Explore America's industrial heritage in this breathtaking—and moving—photo book.

“This book . . . documents better than any economic historian could some of the enormous changes our economy and our society have been going through.”

—From the foreword by Joseph E. Stiglitz, Nobel Prize–winning economist

American culture and politics are shot through with nostalgia for the country’s industrial past, a time when we actually made things—physical things, not patterns of bits and bytes. But what did this past actually look like? Photographer Michael L. Horowitz has traveled throughout the Northeast in search of its remnants, both heritage businesses that have survived to the present and the ruins of decommissioned factories and infrastructure. The spaces he takes us inside range from the intimate to…