SANTA CRUZ — In addition to revolutionizing the American steel industry, Andrew Carnegie is best known for donating money to build libraries throughout the United States, helping them flourish in the ...

The Carnegie Corporation of New York recently gifted $20,000 to the Santa Cruz Public Libraries to honor the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

Steel workers gaze on as molten steel is poured from ladle to casts at Homestead Steel Works, December 31, 1914. PD Andrew Carnegie's relentless efforts to drive down costs and undersell the ...

At a time when America struggled -- often violently -- to sort out the competing claims of democracy and individual gain, Carnegie championed both. He saw himself as a hero of working people, yet he ...