The history of rubber production is charged with social injustice and rapacity. Rubber companies, including those in Akron, got their raw material from plantations in Vietnam, Sumatra, the Philippines ...

The Akron Stories Project continues to commemorate the history of the rubber industry in the city by recording and sharing stories from some who worked in the industry and from friends and families of ...

Global connections -- Race, migration, and labor -- Women and gender on plantations and in factories -- Demand and everyday consumption -- World wars, nationalism, and imperialism -- Resistance and ...

January 13 is National Rubber Ducky Day. The colorful toy is a staple in children's bath tubs and is more than a century old. But how did the simple yellow duck become so popular? The earliest ducks ...

In the 1770s, Vidya Rajan writes in her book Rubber: The Social and Natural History of an Indispensable Substance, an English engineer called Edward Nairne was believed to have used a piece of rubber ...

“I have done nothing but stare at rubber ducks for four or five months straight. I dream in rubber ducks at this point,” Krystal King told the McClatchy on Monday, from her Point Roberts store. King ...

A display of rubber ducks and souvenirs at the Rubber Duck Museum in Point Roberts, Wash. Daniel Schrager “I have done nothing but stare at rubber ducks for four or five months straight. I dream in ...

BELLINGHAM – “I have done nothing but stare at rubber ducks for four or five months straight. I dream in rubber ducks at this point,” Krystal King told the Bellingham Herald on Monday, from her Point ...