- A Potpourri of Business History
John N. Ingham is Professor of History at the University of Toronto. His most recent publications include Biographical Dictionary of American Business Leaders, four volumes (Greenwood, 1983), and guest editor of “Thernstrom’s Poverty and Progress: A Retrospective Look After Twenty Years,” in Social Science History, Spring, 1986. He has just completed a manuscript on the nineteenth-century iron and steel industry entitled, Masters of the Mill, which is under consideration for publication.