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📚 New Works in Legal History | Virtual Book Talk 🗓 April 16, 2025 | 🕕 6:00–7:00 PM Central Join us for a joint virtual event hosted by the American Society for Legal History and the Business History Conference, featuring two groundbreaking books that examine the regulatory and institutional structures shaping modern American life. 📖 Featured Authors & Books: 🥫 Xaq Frohlich — From Label to Tabl...

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🎧📖 Interview with author Benjamin Waterhouse One Day I'll Work for Myself The Dream and Delusion That Conquered America https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393868210 Hosts Katherine Turk, Richard John, and Dan Wadhwani. From side-hustlers to start-ups, freelancers to small business owners, Americans have a special affinity for people who make it on their own. But the dream has a dark side. “One day I...

Interview with business historian Jennifer Black Branding Trust Advertising and Trademarks in Nineteenth-Century America https://www.pennpress.org/9781512825008/branding-trust/ In the early nineteenth century, the American commercial marketplace was a chaotic, unregulated environment in which knock-offs and outright frauds thrived. Appearances could be deceiving, and entrepreneurs often relied on...

Narratives of Business History: Fact, Fiction, and the Archive Organizers: Marina Moskowitz and Andrew Popp The recent publication of Hernan Diaz’ Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Trust—a four-voice narrative about the life of a New York City financier—brings a long tradition of novels about business back into the spotlight. While Trust can sit easily on a bookshelf of business fiction alongside Theod...

2024 BHC Presidential Address by Professor Sharon A. Murphy, introduced by Professor Andrew Popp on March 16 2024 in Providence, RI. Doing Business in the Public Interest

Enterprise & Society TOC 25 1 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/enterprise-and-society/latest-issue Popp, Andrew. “Introduction.” Enterprise & Society 25, no. 1 (2024): 1–1. https://doi.org/10.1017/eso.2023.60. Murphy, Sharon Ann. “How to Define (or Not to Define) the New History of Capitalism.” Enterprise & Society 25, no. 1 (2024): 49–53. https://doi.org/10.1017/eso.2023.37. Regele, Lindsa...

Volume 24 - Issue 4 - December 2023 Enterprise & Society https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/enterprise-and-society/ Krooss Prize Dissertation Summaries Sick Time: Medicine, Management, and Slavery in Louisiana and Cuba, 1763–1868, Liana DeMarco History from the Dustbins, Adam K. Frost Building Blocs: Raw Materials and the Global Economy in the Age of Disequilibrium, Rob Konkel Indigenization...

Whatch the ESC Mentoring Week Workshop - Grant writing On Tuesday, 5th of March, 2024, at 11 am EST. Speakers: Christina Lubinski (Copenhagen Business School) and Ed Balleisen (Duke University). This workshop organized by the BHC Emerging Scholars Committee as part of the Mentoring Week will equip emerging scholars with the essential knowledge and skills required to craft successful grant proposal...

ENTERPRISE & SOCIETY THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BUSINESS HISTORY Published by Cambridge University Press for the Business History Conference, Volume 24, Number 3, September 2023 https://doi.org/10.1017/eso.2023.28 ARTICLES Under the Influence of Commercial Values: Neoliberalized Business-Consumer Relations in the Swedish Certification Market, 1988–2018 Klara Arnberg, Martin Gustavsson, and Krist...

Interview with author Xaq Frohlich, hosted by Business History Conference, Arwen Mohun, Jennifer Black, and Paula de la Cruz-Fernández About the Book, https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520298811/from-label-to-table How did the Nutrition Facts label come to appear on millions of everyday American household food products? As Xaq Frohlich reveals, this legal, scientific, and seemingly innocuous strip...