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The CFP for the Business History Conference annual meeting (2024) is now open

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BHC 2024 Doing Business in the Public Interest
A new tool to search within a database of 1000 selected business history references. Find references within four themed collections: Business history and race, Business history and gender, Business history in Latin America, and Business and power

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The Business History Conference Collective Bibliography
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Founded in 1954, the BHC supports ongoing research among its members and holds conferences to bring together business and economic historians. It also publishes a quarterly academic journal, Enterprise & Society.

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Historical Timeline of the BHC
Enterprise & Society seeks original, imaginative research on the historical relations between businesses and their larger political, cultural, institutional, social, and economic contexts.

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Latest Issue of Enterprise and Society at CUP

Annual Meetings

The 2024 BHC Meeting will be held in Providence, Rhode Island, March 14th - 16th, 2024.

Coinciding with the annual meeting, the Business History Conference organizes a Doctoral Colloquium and Workshops.

Learn more about BHC annual meetings ...

News

News of the discipline is provided on The Exchange, the society's blog, as well as the Member Announcements section of this webpage and on H-BUSINESS. A central calendar lists dates of key BHC events and deadlines.

Jun 02: The program of the Paris Business History Conference is now available

Resources

The BHC publishes an international journal of business history, Enterprise & Society.

Additional resources supporting business history research, teaching, and public engagement include: Expertise Database, Interest Groups, and Digital Resources.

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