Contributors
- Contributors
Richard R. John is Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author of Spreading the News: The American Postal System from Franklin to Morse (Cambridge, Mass., 1995) and many articles on the history of American public policy, business, and communications. He is currently completing a history of early American telecommunications.
Sean Patrick Adams is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Florida. He is the author of Old Dominion, Industrial Commonwealth: Coal, Politics, and Economy in Antebellum America (Baltimore, 2004). His current research focuses on energy consumption in the early United States.
Robin L. Einhorn is Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Property Rules: Political Economy in Chicago, 1833–1872 (Chicago, 1991) and American Taxation, American Slavery (Chicago, forthcoming 2006).
Naomi R. Lamoreaux is Professor of Economics and History at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She is the author of The Great Merger Movement in American Business, 1895–1904 (New York, 1985) and Insider Lending: Banks, Personal Connections, and Economic Development in Industrial New England (New York, 1994). She is currently working on several projects, including a study of the public/private distinction in American history.
Steven W. Usselman is Associate Professor of History in the School of History, Technology, and Society at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is the author of Regulating Railroad Innovation: Business, Technology, and Politics in America, 1840–1920 (Cambridge, 2002), as well as numerous essays, including several on the history and political economy of computing and communications.
R. Daniel Wadhwani is a Lecturer in Business History at Harvard Business School. His current research focuses on the development of the household finance industry in the United States and its impact on the family economy.
Mark R. Wilson is Assistant Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. His first book, The Business of Civil War, is scheduled to be published by The Johns Hopkins University Press in 2006. He is currently at work on a study of U.S. industrial mobilization for World War II.
