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A Crisis of Identity: Sectionalism & The U.S. Navy Officer Corps, 1815-1861 with Roger Bailey
A Good Place to Do Business: The Politics of Downtown Renewal Since 1945
A Medicated Empire: The Pharmaceutical Industry & Modern Japan
Agroecological Farming: Prehistories of Agriculture’s Digital Turn
American Advertising: Researching Capitalism from the Inside Out
American Independent Inventors In An Era of Corporate R&D
An Artist in the Archive: Researching & Sculpting Nylon
An Oral History of the RCA Studio II Console
Back on Track American Railroad Accidents and Safety 1965-2015
Back on Track American Railroad Accidents and Safety 1965-2015
Be His Guest: How Conrad Hilton Made Hotels Better than Homes
Black Powder, White Lace: The DuPont Irish & Cultural Identity in 19th Century America
Born in the USA/Made in the GDR: How Western Popular Music Shaped a Communist Record Market
Building Brands: Corporations and Modern Architecture
Building an Oral History of DuPont’s Textile Fibers Department
Chemistry, Capitalism, & the Commodification of Nitrogen
China's Dream of a Red Railway: Technicians & Industrial Power, 1945-1976
Commercial Attention: Advertising, Space, & New Media in the U.S.
Company Unions & Worker Identity
Detroit Muscle: Automobile Manufacturing and the Middle West
Digital Archaeology: Rediscovering Early Video Games with Kevin Bunch
Ding Dong! Avon Calling! The Women and Men of Avon Products Incorporated
Empire of Steel: Bethlehem in Latin America
Forging the Global Industrial Network: International Industrial Conferences, 1957-1997
Forms of Persuasion: Art and Corporate Image in the 1960s
Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America
Freedom to Harm: Private Violence and the American State, 1860-1895
Gendered Capitalism: Sewing Machines and Multinational Business in Spain and Mexico, 1850–1940
Health, Safety, & Risk Communication at DuPont in the Twentieth Century
Holy Holes: Mining and Religion in the Americas
Home & Hell: Sundown Towns & the Great Migration in Appalachia
How Florida Happened
Illusions of Progress: Business, Poverty, and Liberalism in the American Century
Imagining the Future of Business, 1961-1996
Industrial Semiotic & Visual Complexes: A Study of the United States Visual Culture from the 1880s to the 1950s
Italian Fashion Since 1945: A Cultural History
Kerosene Antimonopoly: Standard Oil & the People Who Hated It
Labor, Technology, & Race in the Early 19th Century Global Textile Industry
Links in the Chain: Department Stores in Socialist Yugoslavia, 1950s-1980s
Making Sense of the Molly Maguires
Making Youth Safe for Democracy: Education & American Enterprise, 1916-1980
Management as Design: Industrial Designers and Business Culture
Manufacturing Self-Determination: Industry on Native American Reservations
Nature’s Brew: An Environmental History of American Brewing
Negating Visions: Cultural Memory and Media Negatives
New York City’s Urban Heat Island, 1860-2020
New York City’s Urban Heat Island, 1860-2020
Oil Palm: A Global History
Old Brains: How Corporate America Measured Aging
Open Plan: A Design History of the American Office
Organized Baseball: Reworking the Transnational Circuit, 1946-1965
Patents Over Planning: Industrial Capital & Postwar Innovation Policy with Dan Traficonte
Philadelphia's Pencoyd Iron Works: Forging Along the Schuylkill River
Pirates of the Caribbean: US Domestic Satellites & Media Distribution in the Americas in the 1980s
Plastic Capitalism: Banks, Credit Cards, and the End of Financial Control
Plasticizing China: A Cultural History of Everyday Things, 1960-1990
Power Up: A Social History of American Electricity
Protective Practices: A History of the London Rubber Company and the Condom Business
Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America
Racial Economies of Early Jazz
Robbing Peter to Pay Paul: Power, Profits, and Productivity in Modern America
Ruman Nation: An Environmental History of American Cattle with Nicole Welk-Joerger
Screentime: An Interactive Exhibition with Deirdre Evans-Pritchard
Securing the System: Phone Phreaks, Computer Hackers, and Political Order, 1963-2013
Set the Earth on Fire: The 1902 Anthracite Coal Strike
Smoke ‘Em If You Got ‘Em: American Tobacco & Broadcast Media
Survival is Improvisational: Casual Labor in Postwar America
Synthetic Fashion & the Mad Russian
TV Town: New York City & Broadcast Media
Tasteful Design: Peter Schlumbohm & the Chemex Coffeemaker
Tax the Rich: Teachers’ Fight to Fund Public Schools
Techno Redux: Technology Competition Policy Lessons from the U.S. vs IBM Trial
Technology & Work
The Bosses' Union: How Employers Organized to Fight Labor before the New Deal
The Channel Islands: Borderlands Migration in the Atlantic World, 1763-1815
The Council for a Union Free Environment
The Economics of the Empire State Building
The Literary & Ecological History of Lake Hopatcong
The Literary & Ecological History of Lake Hopatcong
The Myth of the Perfect Pregnancy: A History of Miscarriage in America
The Northeast Corridor: The Trains, the People, the History, the Region
The Not So Inexhaustible Sea: Fisheries Science & Management, 1863-Present
The Only Way Is Up: Self-Employment in Britain, 1950-2000
The Pennsylvania Railroad Volume 2: The Age of Limits 1917-1933
The Rhetorical Prehistory of the New Deal
The Shareholder Value Revolution
Theater of Innovation: Live Performance in the Tech Industry
Time-Bombing the Future: Plastics in & Around Us
Tired!: Industrial and Workplace Fatigue, 1900-1950
Underwriters of the United States: How Insurance Shaped the American Founding
Unpeeling the Orange Empire: Citrus & Art in the Archive
Who Can You Trust?: Brands, Deception, & Markets
Willing Communist Collaborators?: DuPont in China, 1946-1953
Working Relationships: A Labor-Centric History of the U.S. Public Relations Profession
Working Relationships: A Labor-Centric History of the U.S. Public Relations Profession
Your Friend the Boss: Corporate Social Responsibility at DuPont, 1900-1940
Yuppies: Wall Street & the Remaking of New York
“Keep Within Compass”: Geographies of Girlhood in the American South, 1783-1865
“People of Some Talent & So Much Virtue”: Forgotten Lives of du Pont Women
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Author Talk: Albert Churella
Author Talk: David Alff
Author Talk: David Suisman
Author Talk: Eric S. Hintz
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Author Talk: Katina Manko, "Ding Dong! Avon Calling! The Women and Men of Avon Products, Incorporated"
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