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July 22, 2019
The Space Age and Industry
Before man could land on the moon, we had to figure out how to get there. While scientists played a significant role, industry was also essential to the success of NASA and its programs. NASA’s second administrator, James E.
July 22, 2019
New Season of Library Research Podcast
The Center for the History of Business, Technology, & Society recently launched a new season of the library’s own research podcast, Stories from the Stacks.
June 19, 2019
DuPont Company and the Apollo Space Program (1969)
This month's featured motion picture is from the William Henry Radebough films collection. Radebough - a public relations consultant and executive at DuPont from 1952 to 1977 - wrote, produced, and directed many films for the Company. 
June 17, 2019
The US Navy and Anglophobia in the Mexican-American War
My dissertation examines how US naval officers' political values influenced the country’s path towards civil war. The antebellum era was a period of intense partisanship.
June 17, 2019
Museum Collection: (Patent) Model Behavior
Nineteenth century inventors in the United States were creative people; their innovative minds were contributing to the betterment of society by solving problems and making improvements. But, that doesn’t necessarily mean all of these individuals were polite, upstanding citizens.
June 17, 2019
Travel Scrapbooks: The Next Best Thing to Being There
As someone who loves snail mail, I welcome each picture postcard as the best way to escape momentarily to some alluring, faraway place.  But a group of 18 scrapbooks acquired with the John Margolies Collection of Travel Ephemera may change my mind.  The earliest volume was created in 1906 on a ho
June 17, 2019
Doing Your Part to Win: WWII posters
June 6th marked the 75th anniversary of D-Day, the Allied invasion of German-occupied France during World War II. In honor of this anniversary, I thought I would share some of the posters found in the National Association of Manufacturers collection from that era.
June 17, 2019
Hagley Acquires RCA Rocky Point Collection
Shortly after World War I, the US government advocated for trans-Atlantic wireless communication capabilities. As they recently witnessed, British-controlled underwater cables created intelligence vulnerabilities for the US during wartime.

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