Thousands of bricks are being put to the fire in Colonial Williamsburg this week, as an annual November tradition heats up the old-fashioned way. Each November, typically the week before Thanksgiving, ...

Workers loading unbaked bricks into a kiln. Researchers mapped brick kilns across India and used climate models to forecast the levels of heat stress workers face between now and 2050 “I work with ...

Even after 10 years, the process of making bricks doesn’t get old for Colonial Williamsburg’s Josh Graml. Graml, who has been a journeyman in the masonry department for the past 10 years, said in his ...

The early kiln depicted in this photograph would be similar to the brick kiln owned by Richard Worthen on Thompson Street in Concord, New Hampshire during the 1800s. Credit: Library of Congress As the ...

In Umerkot, Sindh, there are many children who can explain the science of brick-making with more confidence than they can read a textbook. They know the soil by touch, the water by measure, the sun by ...