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Competition Paradox: Political Origins of Market Structures in US, EU, and China with Jingtian Chen

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Pentagon Capitalism: How the Cold War US Military Modeled Itself on Private Business with AJ Murphy

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Machines for Living In: Auto Interiors in the Mid-20th Century with Ronn Daniel

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Renting an Empire: The United States in the Caribbean and the Arctic in the Twentieth Century with Henry Jacob

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She’s the Boss: The Rise of Women’s Entrepreneurship Since World War II with Debra Michals

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Solar Challenger: Energy, Environment, and Solar Aviation, 1976-1981 with Karlyn Allenbrand

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Divided Environment: The Splitting of Workplace and Environmental Regulation with Jasper Cattell

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Supplying Extraction: DuPont and the Chemistry of Mining in Chile with Ángela Vergara

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Susquehanna Steam: Three Centuries of Speculation in Northeastern Pennsylvania with Nancy Campbell

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Credit to the Nation: Jewish Immigrant Bankers in American Finance 1873-1930 with Rebecca Kobrin

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Awash: Sensation, Infiltration, and the Bather in Queer and Trans Art with Jay Buchanan

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Menace of Prosperity: NYC's Struggle for Economic Development 1865-1981 with Daniel Wortel-London

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International Geophysics in the Interwar Period, 1919-1939 with Erik Isberg

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Postindustrial Heritagization: Serra do Navio, Brazil and Bethlehem, PA with Julia Silva de Medeiros

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Gilded Age Entrepreneur: The Curious Life of American Financier Albert Benton Pullman with Simon Cordery

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IBM and Third World Modernities with André Dao

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Black Women’s Health and Diet Culture in America, 1965-1990 with Melina Haberl

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Black Power Inc.: Corporate America and Multinational Empowerment Politics with Jessica Ann Levy

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Americans Under the Chinese Communist Triumph: DuPont China, 1947-1950 with Sanjiao Tang

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TV Town II: New York City and Television Industries with Richard Popp

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Film and American World's Fairs 1893-1964 with Dominique Bregent-Heald

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Rage! At the Train Station: Long Island Railroad Controversies with Elizabeth Moore

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Industrious Skies: Nitrogen Capture and the Atmosphere of Italian Fascism with Rebecca Falkoff

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The Rise and Fall of King Coal: American Energy Transitions, 1800-1940 with Mark Aldrich

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Pennsylvania Merchants and American Ginseng in China, 1784-1840 with Audrey Ke Zhao

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Steel Rhythms: The Many Phases of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania with Kimberly Andrews

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Care in Question: Childcare Policy and the Limits of 20thC Liberalism with Julia Fournier

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Crusading for Globalization: US Multinationals and Their Opponents with Janick Marina Schaufelbuehl

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Chemical Citizenship: A History of Drug Testing in the United States with Laura Browder

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Innovation and Markets in the Beauty and Fashion Industry with Denise Sutton

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An Official History of Official Corporate Histories with Lee McGuigan

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For an 'Orderly' Globalization: Managed Liberalization in US Labor, 1945-1990 with Melanie Sheehan

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The Power of Patents: Global Intellectual Property, 1880-1950 with Joël Praz

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Instrument of War: Music and the Making of America’s Soldiers with David Suisman

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Afro-Andean Sailors and Shipbuilders in Spanish America and the Black Pacific with Leo Garofalo

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A Stretch of the Imagination: Synthetic Fabrics and the Cold War with Monica Geraffo

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Plebian Consumers: Foreign Goods in Nineteenth-Century Colombia with Ana Maria Otero-Cleves

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The Toxic Ship: The Voyage of the Khian Sea and the Global Waste Trade with Simone M. Müller

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The Long Shadow of Kodak: Markets and Science in Twentieth Century Photography with Joris Mercelis

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Smoking Gun: How Consumerism & Community Made an American Gun Culture 1870-1920 with Courtney Slavin

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The Pennsylvania Railroad: The Long Decline, 1933-1968 with Albert Churella

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Sound & Music in the du Pont Women's World in the Age of Revolution with Rebecca Geoffroy-Schwinden

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International Business Associations & Regulations on Multinational Corporations with Maia Müller

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On Ice: America's Nineteenth-Century Ice Age and the Making of Modern Life with Andrew Robichaud

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Analog Superpowers: Technology Theft and the National Security State with Kate Epstein

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The Nature of War: Environment and Industry in the U.S. During WWI with Gerard Fitzgerald

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“Keep Within Compass”: Geographies of Girlhood in the American South, 1783-1865 with Emily Wells

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Plasticizing China: A Cultural History of Everyday Things, 1960-1990 with Yaxi Liu

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Securing the System: Phone Phreaks, Hackers, and Political Order, 1963-2013 with Jacob Bruggeman

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Racial Economies of Early Jazz with Stephanie Doktor

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Management as Design: Industrial Designers and Business Culture with Penelope Dean

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Negating Visions: Cultural Memory and Media Negatives with Stefka Hristova

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Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America with Margot Canaday

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New York City’s Urban Heat Island, 1860-2020 with Kara Schlichting

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Manufacturing Self-Determination: Industry on Native American Reservations with Sam Schirvar

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Back on Track American Railroad Accidents and Safety 1965-2015 with Mark Aldrich

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Health, Safety, & Risk Communication at DuPont in the Twentieth Century with Madison Krall

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Forging the Network: International Industrial Conferences, 1957-1997 with Grigorios Antoniou

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Plastic Capitalism: Banks, Credit Cards & the End of Financial Control with Sean Vanatta

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The Northeast Corridor: The Trains, the People, the History, the Region with David Alff

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Techno Redux: Technology Competition Policy Lessons from the U.S. vs IBM Trial with Andrea Matwyshyn

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The Channel Islands: Borderlands Migration in the Atlantic World, 1763-1815 with Sydney Watts

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Making Youth Safe for Democracy: Education & American Enterprise, 1916-1980 with Maxwell Greenberg

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Commercial Attention: Advertising, Space, & New Media in the U.S. with Jacob Saindon

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Labor, Technology, & Race in the Early 19th Century Global Textile Industry with Hunter Moskowitz

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Making Sense of the Molly Maguires with Kevin Kenny

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The Bosses' Union: How Employers Organized to Fight Labor before the New Deal with Vilja Hulden

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The Only Way Is Up: Self-Employment in Britain, 1950-2000 with Amy Edwards

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Chemistry, Capitalism, & the Commodification of Nitrogen with Chris Morris

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Holy Holes: Mining and Religion in the Americas with Rebecca Janzen

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The Pennsylvania Railroad: The Age of Limits, 1917-1933 with Albert Churella

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Tired!: Industrial and Workplace Fatigue, 1900-1950 with Tina Wei

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Freedom to Harm: Private Violence and the American State, 1860-1895 with Hugh Wood

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The Council for a Union Free Environment with Moeko Yamazaki

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Power Up: A Social History of American Electricity with Trish Kahle

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Tasteful Design: Peter Schlumbohm & the Chemex Coffeemaker with Clark Barwick

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llusions of Progress: Business, Poverty, and Liberalism in the American Century with Brent Cebul

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Pirates of the Caribbean: U.S. Satellites & Media in the 1980s Americas with Fabian Prieto-Nañez

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Philadelphia's Pencoyd Iron Works: Forging Along the Schuylkill River with Kevin Righter

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Who Can You Trust?: Brands, Deception, & Markets with Jennifer Black

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Organized Baseball: Reworking the Transnational Circuit, 1946-1965 with Evan Brown

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Willing Communist Collaborators?: DuPont in China, 1946-1953 with Juanjuan Peng

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The Rhetorical Prehistory of the New Deal with James Kimble

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TV Town: New York City & Broadcast Media with Richard Popp

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An Artist in the Archive: Researching & Sculpting Nylon with Emily Baker

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Smoke ‘Em If You Got ‘Em: American Tobacco & Broadcast Media with Peter Kovacs

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Forms of Persuasion: Art & Corporate Image in the 1960s with Alex Taylor

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American Advertising: Researching Capitalism from the Inside Out with Cynthia Meyers

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Old Brains: How Corporate America Measured Aging with James Leach

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Kerosene Antimonopoly: Standard Oil & the People Who Hated It with Minseok Jang

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Building an Oral History of DuPont’s Textile Fibers Department with Joe Plasky

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Survival is Improvisational: Casual Labor in Postwar America with Maia Silber

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Underwriters of the United States: How Insurance Shaped the American Founding with Hannah Farber

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How Florida Happened with Anna Andrzejewski

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Black Powder, White Lace: The DuPont Irish & Cultural Identity in 19thC USA with Margaret Mulrooney

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Yuppies: Wall Street & the Remaking of New York with Dylan Gottlieb

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Links in the Chain: Department Stores in Socialist Yugoslavia, 1950s-1980s with Ivana Zimbrek

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A Good Place to Do Business: The Politics of Downtown Renewal since 1945 with Mark Rose

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Be His Guest: How Conrad Hilton Made Hotels Better than Homes with Megan Elias

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Set the Earth on Fire: The 1902 Anthracite Coal Strike with David Correia