Archive to be created to preserve Andrew Carnegie birthplace

Archive to be created to preserve Andrew Carnegie birthplace

The project will create a digital record of Andrew Carnegie’s birthplace

Ironic Inheritance: How Andrew Carnegie’s Millions Still Underwrite the Academy

Overwhelmingly left-leaning college professors tend to offer sharp critiques of “ultra-wealth,” concentrated capital, and the supposed moral failings of industrialists and billionaires. Yet in a delicious and lasting bit of irony, many of those same professors — millions in total — entrust their retirement to a system that traces directly to one of the richest men in history: Andrew Carnegie, the Scottish immigrant who built a steel empire and t…