Economic History
Professional Associations in Economic History
Economic History Journals
Historical Price Calculators
Specialized Sites in
Business, Economic, and Labor History
- Economic and Business History (WWW Virual Library)
- Labour History (WWW Virtual Library)
- Encyclopedia of Economic and Business History (EH.Net)
- Bibliographies (EH.Net)
- Business History (Harvard Business School)
- Business History (Ohio State University)
- nationmaster.com [statistical comparisons among countries by category]
- Statistical Resources on the Web (University of Michigan Documents Center)
- Books for Understanding Taxes (American Association of University Presses)
- Guide to Business History Resources (Library of Congress)
- Business History and Management Literacy (KIPnotes.com)
- ebrary [business and economics works] (The Learning Network)
- A History of American Agriculture, 1776-1990 (U.S. Department of Agriculture)
- The Core Historical Literature of Agriculture (Cornell University)
- The US D[epartment of] A[griculture] History Collection (National Agricultural Library, USDA)
- Alexander Hamilton: The Man Who Made Modern America (New York Historical Society)
- Program in Early American Economy and Society (The Library Company, Philadelphia, PA)
- Leslie Brock Center for the Study of Colonial Currency
(University of Virginia)
- Documenting Louisiana Sugar, 1845-1917 (University of Sussex, UK)
- Baker Library Historical Collections (Harvard Business School)
- Picturing Business in America:
Headcuts from the Wall Street Journal (Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery)
- Women, Enterprise, and Society: A Guide to Resources in the Business Manuscripts Collection at Baker Library (Harvard Business School)
- Unheard Voices: American Women in the Emerging Industrial and Business Age (Harvard Business School Library)
- Marketing in the Modern Era: Trade Catalogs and the
Rise of 19th-Century American Advertising
(Harvard Business School, Baker Library)
- International Association of Labour History Institutions (Intl. Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, Netherlands)
- WWW Virtual Library: Labour and Business History (International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, Netherlands)
- Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick, U.K.
- Labour History Research Index
- Institute of Industrial Relations (UCLA)
- A Short History of American Labor
(adapted from AFL-CIO American Federationist, March 1981)
- A Curriculum of United States Labor History (Illinois Labor Historical Society)
- Canadian Labour History, 1850-1999 (Canadian Museum of History)
- Walter P. Reuther Library (Wayne State University)
- Industrial Relations Libraries, Urban and Labor Archive Links (Walter P. Reuther Library)
- Tamiment Institute Library & Robert F. Wagner Archives (Bobst Library, New York University)
- Reference Sources in U.S. Labor Studies (Bobst Library, New York
University)
- Labor History Resources in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress
- Southern Labor Archives (Georgia State University)
- Whole Cloth: Discovering Science and Technology Through American Textile History
(Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation/Society for the History of Technology)
- Edison National Historic Site (National Park Service)
- Thomas A. Edison Papers (Rutgers University)
- California Foundry History Institute
- The Richest Man in the World: Andrew Carnegie (The American Experience/PBS)
- About Andrew Carnegie (Carnegie Moscow Center)
- Andrew Carnegie Birthplace Museum, Dunfermline Fife
- Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum
- James J. Hill Manuscript Services
- Emergence of Advertising in America, 1850-1920 (Duke University)
- Cartoons
of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (Ohio State University)
- Cartoon of John D. Rockefeller (Horace Taylor, The Verdict, January 22, 1900)
- American Labor History (M. Lause)
- Lost Labor: Images of Vanished American Workers, 1900-1980 (R. Elozua)
- The Papers of Samuel Gompers: A Documentary History of the American Working Class (University of Maryland, College Park)
- Labor-Management Conflict in American History (Ohio State University)
- Labor History Bibliography (T.G. Borden, OAH Magazine of History)
- Labor-Management Conflict in American History (Ohio State University)
- Illinois Labor History Society
- Iowa Labor Collection (State Historical Society of Iowa)
- Wisconsin Labor History Society
- Inside an American Factory: The Westinghouse Works, 1904
(American Memory, Library of Congress)
- Women Working, 1870-1930 (Harvard University Library Open Collections Program)
- The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, March 25, 1911
(Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University)
- Teachers Guides: Child Labor (National Labor College)
- Between a Rock and a Hard Place: A History of American Sweatshops, 1820-Present
(National Museum of American History)
- Medicine and Madison Avenue (National
Humanities Center and the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising and Marketing History, Duke University)
- SAH@AutoHistory.org (Society of Automotive Historians)
- The Henry Ford [Henry Ford Museum, Greenfield Village, Benson Ford Research Center]
- U.S. Labor and Industrial History World Wide Web Audio Archive (G.
Zahavi, University of Albany, SUNY)
- In the Shadow of the I.W.W. (Walter P. Reuther Library)
- Seattle General Strike Project (Center for Labor Studies,
University of Washington)
- Securities and Exchange Commission Historical Society
- The Great Flint Sitdown [1937] (Walter P. Reuther Library)
- The Great Flint Sitdown [1937] (Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University)
- The Battle of the Overpass [May 1937] (Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University)
- Remembering the Flint Sit-Down Strike, 1936-1937 (Historical Voices.org)
- Labor in the 1930s Bibliography (New Deal Network)
- A. Philip Randolph, 1889-1979 (George Meany Memorial Archives)
- Labor in the 1930s Bibliography (New Deal Network)
- Rosie the Riveter: Real Women Workers in World War II (Library of Congress)
- The Friedrich Hayek Scholar's Page (G. Ransom)
- The Keynesian Impact on Public Policy (New School University)
-
David Shreve, "President John F. Kennedy and the 1964 Tax Cut."
(Presidential Recording Project, Miller Center, University of Virginia)
- History (Centers for Medicare
and Medicaid Services) official government site
- Council of Economic Advisers (official site)
- The Silent Depression: The State of the Dream 2009 (United for a Fair Economy)
- Pulling Apart: A State-by-State Analysis of Income
Trends (Center on Budget and Policy Prioities/Economic Policy Institute (2006)
- Center for Working-Class Studies (Youngstown State University)
- Contempotary Labor Bibliography (K. Scipes, Purdue University, North Central)
- International Cartel History Site (Leiden University, Netherlands)
- Business Plan Archive [Internet boom and bust of 1996-2002]
(Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland)
- The Secret History of the Credit Card (Frontline, PBS)
- The Enron Affair (Books for Understanding, American Association of University Presses)
- Oxford Latin American Economic History (OxLad)
- Atlantic Community: The Open Think Tank on Global Issues
Conferences
in Economic, Business, and Labor History
Economic History Archives and Information
- Economic and Business History (WWW Virual Library)
- Labour History (WWW Virtual Library)
- World Press Review
- UNESCO Archives Portal
- Portals to the World: Links to Electronic Resources from Around the World (Library of Congress)
- Statistical Resources on the Web (University of Michigan Documents Center)
- Facster: The Facts at Your Fingertips
- State Libraries (LibrarySpot)
- World History Matters: The World History Survey Course on the Web (George Mason University)
- Archive of the History of Economic Thought (McMaster University, Canada)
- The Rothschild Archive (London, England)
- Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (Paris, France)
- Oxford Latin American Economic History (OxLad)
- Announcement re new edition of Historical Statistics of the United States, July 1996
- Australian Bureau of Statistics (official government site)
- Center for Population Economics (University of Chicago)
- Frank Hobbs, Nicole Stoops, U.S. Census Bureau,
Census 2000 Special Reports, Series CENSR-4, Demographic Trends in the 20th Century (2002) [Adobe *.pdf format]
- Business History links (Ohio State University)
- Business History (Leiden University, Netherlands)
- Resources for Economic Historians (SISE)
- The Prologue Group (Redwood, CA)
- Business History--Sources of Information
(University of Maryland)
- Best Business History Sites (The Prologue Group)
- American Management Association
- Management History Division (Academy of Management)
- Management History mailing list (Mailbase, United Kingdom)
- U.S. Department of Labor Historical Information
- Hagley Museum and Library
- Guides to research collections at Hagley Museum
- Hagley Research Seminar Series, 1997-1998
- Emergence of Advertising in America, 1850-1920 (Duke University)
- John W. Hartman Center for Sales Advertising, and Marketing
History (Duke University Library)
- Ad*Access (John W. Hartman Center for Sales Advertising, and Marketing
History, Duke University Library)
- Harvard Business School, Baker Library
- Baker Library Historical Collections (Harvard Business School)
- Women, Enterprise, and Society: A Guide to Resources in the Business Manuscripts Collection at Baker Library (Harvard Business School)
- Center for Black Business History, Entrepreneurship, and Technology (University of Texas at Austin)
- Historical Microdata Around the World
- Labor History Resources in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress
- George Meany Memorial Archives (National Labor College)
- Southern Labor Archives (Georgia State University)
- National Bureau of Economic Research
- Economics Departments, Institutes and Research Centers in the World
(University of Quebec at Montreal)
- Economics Working Paper Archive (Washington University)
- The Longwave and Social Cycles Resource Centre
- History of Individual Companies (Ohio State University)
- Airline History Archives
- Airline History: The History of Commercial Aviation (S. Ward)
- U.S. Historical Data on Bank Market Structure
(M. Flood, University of North Carolina, Charlotte)
- Railroad History (R. Jensen)
- Union Pacific Railroad Home Page
- A Comparative Chronology of Money from Ancient Times to the Present Day (R. Davies)
- Books for Understanding Taxes (American Association of University Presses)
- Tax History Project
- Business Plan Archive [Internet boom and bust of 1996-2002]
(Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland)
Contemporary Economic Issues and Information
- WallStreetView.com (links to current economic statistics and reports)
- Norman Lear Center: Exploring Implications of the Convergence of Entertainment, Commerce, and Society
(University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication)
- Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy (PBS)
- World Information.com [summaries of world politics and economics by continent, country, and political subunits)
- Global Gateway: World Culture & Resources (Library of Congress)
- GlobalEdge: Your Source for Global Business Knowledge (Michigan State University)
- Atlantic Community: The Open Think Tank on Global Issues
- Data Links (EconEdLink, National Council on Economic Education)
- EconData.Net: Your Guide to Regional Economic Data on the Web
- State Libraries (LibrarySpot)
- Statistical Resources on the Web (University of Michigan Documents Center)
- Facster: The Facts at Your Fingertips
- Frank Hobbs, Nicole Stoops, U.S. Census Bureau,
Census 2000 Special Reports, Series CENSR-4, Demographic Trends in the 20th Century (2002) [Adobe *.pdf format]
- The Silent Depression: The State of the Dream 2009 (United for a Fair Economy)
- Pulling Apart: A State-by-State Analysis of Income
Trends (Center on Budget and Policy Prioities/Economic Policy Institute (2006)
- National Priorities Project: Better Choices, Better Communities
- 2005 Report Card for America's Infrastructure (American Society of Civil Engineers)
- Measuring Fiscal
Disparities across the U.S. States: A Representative Revenue System/Representative Expenditure System Approach,
Fiscal Year 2002 (The Urban Institute, Washington, D.C.)
- Assets and Opportunity Scorecard, 2005 (CFED)
- Tennessee state ranking in 2005 Assets and Opportunity Scorecard (CFED)
- Education issue brief for Tennessee, 2005 (Assets and Opportunity Scorecard, 2005, CFED)
- School District Demographics (National Center for Education Statistics)
- Closing the College Participation Gap (Education Commission of the States)
- The Big Payoff: Educational
Attainment and Synthetic Estimates of Work-Life Earnings
July 2002, U.S. Census Bureau Special Report
- Public Agena: a nonpartisan research and civic engagement organization helping Americans explore and understand crticial isssues
- The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education
- GovEngine.com: the Premiere Federal, State, & Local Government Site on the Internet
- Works on Personal Finance
- WWW Virtual Library: International Affairs Resources
- Country Studies (Library of Congress)
- BusinessWeek Online
- The Economist
- International Economics [links] (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
- Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
- WebEc--World Wide Web Resources in Economics (Washington University)
- PRNewswire (business news)
- E-Book on International Finance and Development (E.R. Carrasco,
University of Iowa)
- International Monetary Fund
- G8 Information Centre (University of Toronto)
- Atlantic Community: The Open Think Tank on Global Issues
- North American Free Trade Agreement Secretariat
- Global Trade Negotiations Home Page (Center for International Development, Harvard University)
- Joseph S. Nye, "Limits of American Power,"
Political Science Quarterly 117 (Winter 2002-2003): 545-559.
- Economic Statistics and Research (Office of Advocacy, U.S. Small Business Administration)
- Securities and Exchange Commission Historical Society
- Small Business State Profiles [1996-Present] (Office of Advocacy, U.S. Small Business Administration)
- Center for Black Business History, Entrepreneurship, and Technology (University of Texas at Austin)
- Economic Profiles of the 50 U.S. States and the
District of Columbia
(Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness, Harvard Business School)
- 2002 State New Economy Index (Progressive Policy Institute)
- Measuring Fiscal
Disparities across the U.S. States: A Representative Revenue System/Representative Expenditure System Approach,
Fiscal Year 2002 (The Urban Institute, Washington, D.C.)
- Future Labor and Skills Shortage Threatens America's Economic Prosperity (Employment Policy Foundation)
- International Labour Organization
- U.S. Department of Labor (Official site)
- UnionMembersWeb.com
- workingfamilies.com: The AFL-CIO Internet Community
- Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
- History (Centers for Medicare
and Medicaid Services) official government site
- Contempotary Labor Bibliography (K. Scipes, Purdue University, North Central)
- New Labor Forum: A Journal of Ideas, Analysis and Debate
- Income Inequality Continued to Grow in Most States in the 1990s, Despite Economic Growth and Tight Labor Markets
(Economic Policy Institute and Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)
- The Silent Depression: The State of the Dream 2009 (United for a Fair Economy)
- Pulling Apart: A State-by-State Analysis of Income
Trends (Center on Budget and Policy Prioities/Economic Policy Institute (2006)
- Economic Policy Institute
- State Tax Systems Are Becoming Increasingly Inequitable
(Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)
- Despite Past Boom Times, Income Gaps
Have Widened in 45 States Over the Past Twenty Years (Center for Budget and Policy Priorities)
- Alan Berube and Bruce Katz, Katrina's Window: Confronting Concentrated Poverty Across America (October 2005 Brooking Institution study) [Adobe Acrobat format]
- The Way We Tax: A 50-State Report (Government Performance Project, Governing.com)
- Books for Understanding Taxes (American Association of University Presses)
- National Priorities Project: Better Choices, Better Communities
- Measuring Fiscal
Disparities across the U.S. States: A Representative Revenue System/Representative Expenditure System Approach,
Fiscal Year 2002 (The Urban Institute, Washington, D.C.)
- Who Pays? A Distributional Analysis of the Tax Systems in All 50 States, second edition, January 2003
(Institute on Taxation & Economic Policy)
- [Tennessee State Budget] Fact Book, 2004-2005 (Tennessee General Assembly)
(*.pdf format requires Adobe Acrobat reader)
- 2004-05 [Tennessee State] Budget Summary (Tennessee General Assembly)
- Tennessee Taxes Hit Poor and Middle Class Far Harder Than the Wealthy, January 2003
(Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy)
- The Real Budget Deficit: A Call to Invest in Tennessee, Its Communities, and Its People, October 2006
(Tennesseans for Fair Taxation and Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy)
- Study on Persistent Poverty in the South (Carl Vinson Institute of Government, University of Georgia)
- Office of Management and Budget (Federal Budget Information)
- The Beige Book (U.S. Federal Reserve Board)
- Publications (Congressional Budget Office, U.S. Congress)
- Joint Economic Committee (U.S. Congress)
- EconData.Net: Your Guide to Regional Economic Data on the Web
- Higher Education Resource Hub
- Grapevine: A National Database of Tax Support for Higher Education
(Center for Higher Education and Educational Finance, Illinois State University)
- Taxes and Budget (stateline.org)
- Economics Working Papers (Washington University)
- William L. Goffe and Bob Parks, "The Future Information Structure of Economics"
- Executive PayWatch (AFL-CIO)
- Glass Ceiling Commission (Cornell
University)
- The Silent Depression: The State of the Dream 2009 (United for a Fair Economy)
- The Secret History of the Credit Card (Frontline, PBS)
- Wal-Mart's Social and Economic Impact
Four-Part Series Examines Influence of Largest U.S. Employer (National Public Radio)
- Wakeup Wal-Mart.com
- Wal*Mart (official corporate web site)
- Wal-Mart Facts (official Wal-Mart site)
- Wal-Mart Good Works (Wal-Mart Foundation official site)
- Measuring the Economic Impact of Wal-Mart on the U.S. Economy (Global Insight conference sponsored by Wal-Mart)
- The Wal-Mart Threat (United Food and Commercial Workers' Union
- Wal*Mart Watch
-
Aaron Bernstein, "A Stepped-Up Assault on Wal-Mart," Business Week, October 20, 2005
- Wal*Mart: The High Cost of Low Price (November 2005 Robert Greenwald film official site)
- Full Coverage: Wal-Mart (Yahoo! News)
- "walmart" search at Google News
Last updated on January 26, 2009
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