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The History of the USPS and the Politics of Postal Reform
Reform was framed as a way of removing “politics” from postal affairs and giving more autonomy to postal management. In time, it would prove to do neither.
by
Ryan Ellis
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TIME
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August 18, 2020
How Baseball Players Became Celebrities
Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth transformed America’s pastime by becoming a new kind of star.
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Louis Menand
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The New Yorker
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May 21, 2020
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The Founders Never Intended the U.S. Postal Service to be Managed Like a Business
The mail delivery agency is supposed to serve the public good — not worry about profit.
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Richard R. John
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Made By History
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April 27, 2020
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CEOs Email You Heartfelt Coronavirus Messages, While Still Prioritizing the Bottom Line
Over 100 years, a tactic first designed to keep workers happy morphed into a marketing strategy.
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Andrew Lynn
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Made By History
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April 9, 2020
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On What Should Have Been Opening Day, America Needs Baseball More Than Ever
When it's safe to return, baseball can play a big role in uniting Americans and providing comfort.
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Randy Roberts
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Johnny Smith
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Made By History
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March 26, 2020
The Long Roots of Corporate Irresponsibility
Nicholas Lemann’s history of 20th century corporations, Transaction Man, shows how an unrelenting faith in the market and profit doomed the American economy.
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Rick Perlstein
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The Nation
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March 17, 2020
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Jack Welch Was a Bitter Foe of American Workers
The GE exec was known for his big personality. He should be known for the role he played in creating America's toxic corporate culture on a base of inequality.
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Erik Loomis
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HNN
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March 6, 2020
Rube Foster Was the Big Man Behind the First Successful Negro Baseball League
100 years ago, it took a combination of salesman and dictator to launch a historic era for black teams.
by
John Florio
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Ouisie Shapiro
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Andscape
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February 13, 2020
When Dorothy Parker Got Fired from Vanity Fair
Jonathan Goldman explores the beginnings of the Algonquin Round Table and how Parker's determination to speak her mind gave her pride of place within it.
by
Jonathan Goldman
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The Public Domain Review
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February 6, 2020
How Fast Food "Became Black"
A new book, "Franchise," explains how black franchise owners became the backbone of the industry.
by
Marcia Chatelain
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Cynthia R. Greenlee
via
Vox
on
January 10, 2020
The Intertwined History of McDonald’s and Black America
In good ways and bad, the Golden Arches have always loomed large in the African American experience.
by
Marcia Chatelain
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Gen
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January 6, 2020
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Citibank: Exploiting the Past, Condemning the Future
In 2011, Citigroup published a 300-page 200th anniversary commemoration Celebrating the Past, Defining the Future. Is it a past to celebrate?
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Alan J. Singer
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HNN
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November 3, 2019
Editing Donald Trump
What I saw as the editor of “The Art of the Deal,” the book that made the future President millions of dollars and turned him into a national figure.
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Peter Osnos
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The New Yorker
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November 3, 2019
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Lessons From the Challenger Tragedy
Normalization of deviance is a useful concept that was developed to explain how the Challenger disaster happened.
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Retro Report
on
October 29, 2019
State of the Unions
What happened to America’s labor movement?
by
Caleb Crain
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The New Yorker
on
August 26, 2019
Milton Friedman Was Wrong
The famed economist’s “shareholder theory” provides corporations with too much room to violate consumers’ rights and trust.
by
Eric Posner
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The Atlantic
on
August 22, 2019
Was E-mail a Mistake?
Digital messaging was supposed to make our work lives easier and more efficient, but the math suggests that meetings might be better.
by
Cal Newport
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The New Yorker
on
August 6, 2019
Wayward Leviathans
How America's corporations lost their public purpose.
by
David Ciepley
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The Hedgehog Review
on
March 1, 2019
Does Journalism Have a Future?
In an era of social media and fake news, journalists who have survived the print plunge have new foes to face.
by
Jill Lepore
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The New Yorker
on
January 22, 2019
How Mark Burnett Resurrected Donald Trump as an Icon of American Success
With “The Apprentice,” the TV producer mythologized Trump as the ultimate titan, paving his way to the Presidency.
by
Patrick Radden Keefe
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The New Yorker
on
December 27, 2018
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The Undocumented Workers who Built Silicon Valley
Undocumented workers have been foundational to the rise of our most vaunted hub of innovative capitalism.
by
Louis Hyman
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Made By History
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August 30, 2018
How Slavery Inspired Modern Business Management
The connections between the two systems of labor have been persistently neglected in mainstream business history.
by
Caitlin C. Rosenthal
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Boston Review
on
August 17, 2018
“Google Was Not a Normal Place”
A behind-the-scenes account of the most important company on the Internet, from grad-school all-nighters to extraordinary global power.
by
Adam Fisher
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The Hive
on
July 10, 2018
What Dale Carnegie’s “How to Win Friends and Influence People” Can Teach the Modern Worker
Dale Carnegie treated the employee-employer relationship as a sacred, symbiotic bond.
by
Jessica Weisberg
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The New Yorker
on
April 2, 2018
Swinging in the Sun: The History and Business of Spring Baseball
How spring training has become as much about money and business as about playing the game.
by
Zoë Jackson
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Perspectives on History
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March 26, 2018
Labor and the Long Seventies
In the 1970s, women and people of color streamed into unions, strikes swept the nation, and employers launched a fierce counterattack.
by
Lane Windham
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Chris Brooks
via
Jacobin
on
February 25, 2018
Amazon’s Labor-Tracking Wristband Has a History
Jeff Bezos is stealing from a 19th-century playbook.
by
Stephen Mihm
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Bloomberg
on
February 23, 2018
Mark Twain’s Get-Rich-Quick Schemes
“I am frightened by the proportions of my prosperity,” Twain said. “It seems to me that whatever I touch turns to gold.”
by
Alan Pell Crawford
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The Paris Review
on
October 25, 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
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The Atlantic
on
September 25, 2017
On the 40th Anniversary of Youngstown’s “Black Monday,” an Oral History
On September 18, 1977, Youngstown, Ohio, received a blow that it has never recovered from.
by
Vince Guerrieri
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Belt Magazine
on
September 19, 2017
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