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        • A Good Place to Do Business: The Politics of Downtown Renewal Since 1945
        • A Medicated Empire: The Pharmaceutical Industry & Modern Japan
        • A Stretch of the Imagination: Speculative Design, Performance Fabrics, and the Space Race
        • Afro-Andean Sailors and Shipbuilders in Spanish America and the Black Pacific
        • 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 Official History of Official Corporate Histories
        • An Oral History of the RCA Studio II Console
        • Analog Superpowers: How Twentieth-Century Technology Theft Built the National Security State
        • 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
        • Care in Question: Childcare Policy and the Limits of 20th Century Liberalism
        • Chemical Citizenship: A History of Drug Testing in the United States
        • 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
        • Crusading for Globalization: US Multinationals and Their Opponents Since 1945
        • 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
        • How International Business Associations Reacted to Regulations on Multinational Corporations
        • 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
        • Innovation and Markets in the Beauty and Fashion Industry
        • Instrument of War: Music and the Making of America's Soldiers
        • 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
        • On Ice:  America's Nineteenth-Century Ice Age and the Making of Modern Life
        • 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
        • Plebian Consumers: Global Connections, Local Trade, and Foreign Goods in Nineteenth Century Colombia
        • 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
        • Smoking Gun: How Consumerism & Community Made an American Gun Culture, 1870-1920
        • Sound and Music in the du Pont Women's World: From French Revolution to American Civil War
        • Steel Rhythms: The Many Phases of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
        • Struggling to Adjust: U.S. Labor Unions & Global Competition, 1940-1980s
        • 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 Iron Horse in Indian Country: Native Americans and Railroads in the US West
        • The Literary & Ecological History of Lake Hopatcong
        • The Literary & Ecological History of Lake Hopatcong
        • The Long Shadow of Kodak: Markets and Scientific in Twentieth Century Photography
        • The Myth of the Perfect Pregnancy: A History of Miscarriage in America
        • The Nature of War:  An Environmental History of Industrialization in the United States During World War One
        • 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 Pennsylvania Railroad: The Long Decline, 1933-1968
        • The Power of Patents: Global Intellectual Property, 1880-1950
        • The Rhetorical Prehistory of the New Deal
        • The Shareholder Value Revolution
        • The Toxic Ship: The Voyage of the Khian Sea and the Global Waste Trade
        • 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
        • 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
      • Author Talks
        • Author Talk: Al Churella
        • Author Talk: Albert Churella
        • Author Talk: David Alff
        • Author Talk: David Suisman
        • Author Talk: Debra Michals
        • Author Talk: Eric S. Hintz
        • Author Talk: Jennifer Black
        • Author Talk: Jennifer Kaufmann-Buhler
        • Author Talk: Katina Manko, "Ding Dong! Avon Calling! The Women and Men of Avon Products, Incorporated"
        • Author Talk: Lisa Jacobson
        • Author Talk: Margaret Mulrooney
        • Author Talk: Rachel Gross
        • Author Talk: Rachel Lance
        • Author Talk: Roger Biles and Mark Rose
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      • Conferences
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        • Avon: An International Forum on its Archive
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      • Research Seminars
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        • Research Seminar Che Yuen
        • Research Seminar: Adam Rome
        • Research Seminar: Ai Hisano
        • Research Seminar: Amanda Marie Martinez
        • Research Seminar: Angus McLeod
        • Research Seminar: Anna Andrzejewski
        • Research Seminar: Brent Cebul
        • Research Seminar: Christopher Morris
        • Research Seminar: Christy Chapin
        • Research Seminar: Christy Chapin
        • Research Seminar: Cody Patton
        • Research Seminar: Cody Patton
        • Research Seminar: Dylan Gottlieb
        • Research Seminar: Evan Brown
        • Research Seminar: Greg Hargreaves
        • Research Seminar: Hannah Tucker
        • Research Seminar: Isabelle Held
        • Research Seminar: Karen Mahar
        • Research Seminar: Kelly Goodman
        • Research Seminar: Maia Silber
        • Research Seminar: Moeko Yamazaki
        • Research Seminar: Naa Oyo Kwate
        • Research Seminar: Philip Scranton
        • Research Seminar: Richard John
        • Research Seminar: Salem Elzway
        • Research Seminar: Sam Schirvar
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Monday, September 29, 2025

This week marks the 100th anniversary of the world's first intercontinental radio transmission ..

Tuesday, September 20, 2022

RCA head David Sarnoff had high hopes for his company's investment in television technology ...

Tuesday, March 22, 2022

This 1921 photograph has us joining some #TechTuesday luminaries ....

Tuesday, February 8, 2022

You have to see it to believe it ....

Wednesday, November 24, 2021

Hagley Library will be closed on November 25th and 26th ...

Tuesday, August 24, 2021

We're traveling on the electronic highway of the future ....

Thursday, June 17, 2021

It's a *little* late to arrange for a Radiogram (a portmanteau of radio telegram), but a telephone call would be nice ...

Wednesday, November 25, 2020

Whatever your Thanksgiving looks like this year...

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      • History Hangouts
        • 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
        • A Stretch of the Imagination: Speculative Design, Performance Fabrics, and the Space Race
        • Afro-Andean Sailors and Shipbuilders in Spanish America and the Black Pacific
        • 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 Official History of Official Corporate Histories
        • An Oral History of the RCA Studio II Console
        • Analog Superpowers: How Twentieth-Century Technology Theft Built the National Security State
        • 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
        • Care in Question: Childcare Policy and the Limits of 20th Century Liberalism
        • Chemical Citizenship: A History of Drug Testing in the United States
        • 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
        • Crusading for Globalization: US Multinationals and Their Opponents Since 1945
        • 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
        • How International Business Associations Reacted to Regulations on Multinational Corporations
        • 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
        • Innovation and Markets in the Beauty and Fashion Industry
        • Instrument of War: Music and the Making of America's Soldiers
        • 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
        • On Ice:  America's Nineteenth-Century Ice Age and the Making of Modern Life
        • 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
        • Plebian Consumers: Global Connections, Local Trade, and Foreign Goods in Nineteenth Century Colombia
        • 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
        • Smoking Gun: How Consumerism & Community Made an American Gun Culture, 1870-1920
        • Sound and Music in the du Pont Women's World: From French Revolution to American Civil War
        • Steel Rhythms: The Many Phases of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
        • Struggling to Adjust: U.S. Labor Unions & Global Competition, 1940-1980s
        • 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 Iron Horse in Indian Country: Native Americans and Railroads in the US West
        • The Literary & Ecological History of Lake Hopatcong
        • The Literary & Ecological History of Lake Hopatcong
        • The Long Shadow of Kodak: Markets and Scientific in Twentieth Century Photography
        • The Myth of the Perfect Pregnancy: A History of Miscarriage in America
        • The Nature of War:  An Environmental History of Industrialization in the United States During World War One
        • 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 Pennsylvania Railroad: The Long Decline, 1933-1968
        • The Power of Patents: Global Intellectual Property, 1880-1950
        • The Rhetorical Prehistory of the New Deal
        • The Shareholder Value Revolution
        • The Toxic Ship: The Voyage of the Khian Sea and the Global Waste Trade
        • 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
        • 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
      • Author Talks
        • Author Talk: Al Churella
        • Author Talk: Albert Churella
        • Author Talk: David Alff
        • Author Talk: David Suisman
        • Author Talk: Debra Michals
        • Author Talk: Eric S. Hintz
        • Author Talk: Jennifer Black
        • Author Talk: Jennifer Kaufmann-Buhler
        • Author Talk: Katina Manko, "Ding Dong! Avon Calling! The Women and Men of Avon Products, Incorporated"
        • Author Talk: Lisa Jacobson
        • Author Talk: Margaret Mulrooney
        • Author Talk: Rachel Gross
        • Author Talk: Rachel Lance
        • Author Talk: Roger Biles and Mark Rose
        • Author Talk: Susan Murray
        • Author Talk: Thomas Zeller
        • Author Talk: Wendy Woloson
      • Conferences
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        • 2020 Fall Conference
        • 2021 Fall Conference
        • 2022 Fall Conference
        • 2024 Fall Conference
        • 2025 Fall Conference
        • Avon: An International Forum on its Archive
        • Past conferences
          • Hidden Capitalism: Beyond, Below, and Outside the Visible Market
      • Research Seminars
        • Ben Kletzer
        • Research Seminar Che Yuen
        • Research Seminar: Adam Rome
        • Research Seminar: Ai Hisano
        • Research Seminar: Amanda Marie Martinez
        • Research Seminar: Angus McLeod
        • Research Seminar: Anna Andrzejewski
        • Research Seminar: Brent Cebul
        • Research Seminar: Christopher Morris
        • Research Seminar: Christy Chapin
        • Research Seminar: Christy Chapin
        • Research Seminar: Cody Patton
        • Research Seminar: Cody Patton
        • Research Seminar: Dylan Gottlieb
        • Research Seminar: Evan Brown
        • Research Seminar: Greg Hargreaves
        • Research Seminar: Hannah Tucker
        • Research Seminar: Isabelle Held
        • Research Seminar: Karen Mahar
        • Research Seminar: Kelly Goodman
        • Research Seminar: Maia Silber
        • Research Seminar: Moeko Yamazaki
        • Research Seminar: Naa Oyo Kwate
        • Research Seminar: Philip Scranton
        • Research Seminar: Richard John
        • Research Seminar: Salem Elzway
        • Research Seminar: Sam Schirvar
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      • African American Film Series
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        • Louis Galambos National Fellowship in Business and Politics
      • Short Term
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        • Henry Belin du Pont Research Grants
      • Oral History
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      • Past Grant Recipients
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