Interviews with scholars of the economic and business history about their new books
In Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy (Simon & Schuster, 2019), Matt
Today’s book is: Freeman’s Challenge: The Murder That Shook America’s Original Prison for Profit (U
A new kind of city park has emerged in the early twenty-first century. Postindustrial parks transfor
Examining the changing character of revolution around the world, The Revolutionary City: Urbanizatio
The 'baby boom' generation, born between the 1940s and the 1960s, is often credited with pioneering
San Francisco began its American life as a city largely made up of transient men, arriving from afar
All too often, the history of early modern Africa is told from the perspective of outsiders. In his
In the vaunted annals of America’s founding, Boston has long been held up as an exemplary “city upon
In Worthy of Freedom: Indenture and Free Labor in the Era of Emancipation (University of Chicago Pre
The rise of agrarian capitalism in Britain is usually told as a story about markets, land and wages.
Locusts of Power: Borders, Empire, and Environment in the Modern Middle East (Cambridge UP, 2023) fo
A history of food in the Crescent City that explores race, power, social status, and labor.In Insati
This episode features a conversation with Dr. William Gow on his recently published book, Performing
The emergence of the popular music industry in the early twentieth century not only drove a wedge be
When Americans and other citizens of advanced capitalist countries think of humanitarianism, they th
Traversed by thousands of trains and millions of riders, the Northeast Corridor might be America’s m
There were 20,000 miles of railways in 1865 and about a million by 2020. Scale has always been a key
Despite a mass expansion of the higher education sector in the UK since the 1960s, young people from
Half a century ago, deindustrialization gutted blue-collar jobs in the American Midwest. But today,
Do we understand racism as the primary driving engine of American inequality? Or do we focus instead
