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'Corporations Are People' Is Built on an Incredible 19th-Century Lie

How a farcical series of events in the 1880s produced an enduring and controversial legal precedent.
by Adam Winkler via The Atlantic on March 5, 2018

Jared Kushner's Business Dealings Evoke the Nepotism and Corruption of the Gilded Age

From fee-based governance to the “friendships” between the rich and public officials, the 19th century practices we once banished are back.
by Richard White via NBC News on March 2, 2018
Plate stacked with sugar cookies.

The First Girl Scout Cookie Was Surprisingly Boring

No coconut, chocolate, or mint in sight.
by Anne Ewbank via Atlas Obscura on February 5, 2018

The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of the U.S. Antitrust Movement

A short history puts contemporary anti-monopoly movements in context.
by Ariel Ezrachi, Maurice E. Stucke via Harvard Business Review on December 15, 2017

The Uses and Abuses of 'Neoliberalism'

Does the term clarify or confuse our understanding of capitalism today?
by Daniel T. Rodgers via Dissent on December 13, 2017
Semi on a mountain highway.

The Populist Power of the American Trucker

How did truckers nudge the American economy toward deregulation?
by Shane Hamilton, Livia Gershon via JSTOR Daily on December 1, 2017

The Small Business Myth

Small businesses enjoy an iconic status in modern capitalism, but what do they really contribute to the economy?
by Benjamin C. Waterhouse via Aeon on November 8, 2017

The History of Sears Predicts Nearly Everything Amazon Is Doing

100 years ago, a mail-order retail giant moved swiftly into the brick-and-mortar business, changing it forever.
by Derek Thompson via The Atlantic on September 25, 2017

Oil Barrels Aren't Real Anymore

Once a cask that held crude, the oil barrel is now mostly an economic concept.
by Brian Jacobson via The Atlantic on September 8, 2017

The Tater Tot Is American Ingenuity at Its Finest

The genius move that turned potato scraps into a frozen-food empire
by Kelsey McKinney via Eater on August 28, 2017

Triumph of the Shill

The political theory of Trumpism.
by Corey Robin via n+1 on August 9, 2017
Bottles of Fanta with German labels.

Coca-Cola Collaborated with the Nazis in the 1930s, and Fanta is the Proof

The not-so-sweet history.
by Josh O’Connor via Timeline on August 2, 2017
Sign marking an EPA superfund cleanup site.

The Environmental Protection Agency is Not the Nation's Janitor

How Scott Pruitt misunderstands the primary role of the EPA.
by Leif Fredrickson via The Guardian on July 28, 2017

How Sears Industrialized, Suburbanized, and Fractured the American Economy

The iconic retail giant turned thrift into profit, but couldn’t keep pace with modern consumer culture.
by Vicki Howard via Zócalo Public Square on July 20, 2017

How Gotham Gave Us Trump

Ever wonder how a lifelong urbanite can resent cities as much as Donald Trump does? First you have to understand ’70s and ’80s New York.
by Michael Kruse via Politico Magazine on June 30, 2017
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How our Appetite for Cheap Food Drove Rural America to Trump

Consumer demand and government policy decimated rural America.
by Benjamin Davison via Made By History on June 30, 2017
Franklin Roosevelt in front of news microphones.

The Rise and Fall of the Word 'Monopoly' in American Life

For several decades, the term was a fixture of newspaper headlines and campaign speeches. Then something changed.
by Stacy Mitchell via The Atlantic on June 20, 2017

Victorian Era Drones: How Model Trains Transformed from Cutting-Edge to Quaint

Nostalgia and technological innovation paved the way for the rise of model-train giant Lionel.
by Ben Marks via Collectors Weekly on February 1, 2017
Alexander Hamilton

The Hamilton Hustle

Why liberals have embraced our most dangerously reactionary founder.
by Matt Stoller via The Baffler on January 1, 2017
Political cartoon depicting Standard Oil as an octopus.

When Did Americans Stop Being Antimonopoly?

Columbia professor Richard R. John explains the history of U.S. monopolies and why antimonopoly should not be conflated with antitrust.
by Richard R. John, Asher Schechter via Pro-Market on November 21, 2016

The Internet Should Be a Public Good

The Internet was built by public institutions — so why is it controlled by private corporations?
by Ben Tarnoff via Jacobin on August 31, 2016
Two kids eating ice cream

Thanks, Prohibition!

How the Eighteenth Amendment fueled America’s taste for ice cream.
by Rachel Van Bokkem via Perspectives on History on August 8, 2016
Empty plastic bottles to be recycled.
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Cashing In

How big business lies behind early efforts to encourage Americans to recycle.
via BackStory on August 4, 2016
Interactive map (above) and graph (below) showing the canals of the American Mid-Atlantic and Northeast, 1820 to 1860.
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Canals 1820-1890

An interactive map of U.S. canals in the first half of the 19th century.
by Ed Ayers, Robert K. Nelson, Scott Nesbit, Justin Madron, Nathaniel Ayers, Beaumont Smith via American Panorama on December 1, 2015

By Which Melancholy Occurrence: The Disaster Prints of Nathaniel Currier, 1835–1840

Why Americans living in uncertain times bought so many sensational images of shipwrecks and fires.
by Genoa Shepley via Panorama on October 14, 2015
Black family sitting around log cabin, possibly in Florida, 1892.

Plantations Practiced Modern Management

Slaveholding plantations of the 19th century used scientific management techniques—and some applied them more extensively than factories.
by Caitlin C. Rosenthal, Scott Berinato via Harvard Business Review on September 1, 2013
A photograph of a Pony Express employee riding a horse.
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Cowboys and Mailmen

Debunking myths about the Pony Express.
via BackStory on December 7, 2012
A man at a Tea Party rally in 2010, dressed in colonial clothes and standing in front of a Don't Treat On Me flag with his fist raised.
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Teed Off

Did the 2010 Tea Party Movement really have anything in common with 1773? What did the history of populism suggest about the Tea Party's future?
via BackStory on May 21, 2010
Trucks and cars moving on the highway

Keep on Truckin’

The road to right-wing deregulation began on our nation's highways.
by Matthew D. Lassiter via Democracy Journal on December 10, 2008
Cubicles

The Moral Life of Cubicles

On the utopian origins of Dilbert's workspace.
by David Franz via The New Atlantis on December 1, 2008
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