Extensive List of Online Research Resources
The following online resources relevant to research in business history were compiled between 2009 and 2014 by Pat Denault.
Audio-Visual Materials
AdViews, Duke University Library
America at Work, America at Leisure: Motion Pictures, 1894-1915, Library of Congress
American History audio and video clips
Aural and Video Histories, from the Lemelson Center
Business in History, Louis Galambos at the Library of Congress
Chicago Board of Trade Documentary, ''My Word Is My Bond''
Creating Emerging Markets (Harvard Business School) The interviews in the Creating Emerging Markets archive form a permanent and unique resource held in Harvard Business School’s Baker Library.
Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project, UC Santa Barbara Library
Emile Berliner and the Birth of the Recording Industry
Films of the Westinghouse Works, Library of Congress
Historians on the Record, Podcasts from the Gilder Lehrman Institute
Historical Voices, MATRIX, Michigan State University
History and Politics Out Loud, Northwestern University
Library of American Broadcasting Soundbites, University of Maryland
Library of Congress Moving Image Finding Aid
Library of Congress Recorded Sound Collections Guide
Motion Picture and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies, Library of Congress
Radio News Clips, from Radio Days
The Internet Archive ( massive audio and video collection, searchable by topic)
U.S. Labor and Industrial History WWW Audio Archive
Video-based Lesson Plans from PBS Frontline
Voices of History, from the British Library
Blogs
Adam Smith Lives, Sandra Peart (History of Economics)
AMHE, Asociación Mexicana de Historica Económica
Autos and Economics, Michael Smitka
Economic History of the World, Simun Selak
Finance: History and Policy, Robert C. Wright
Grasping Reality..., Brad DeLong
NIRFF (Network of Interdiciplinary Research in Family Firms), Paloma Fernández
On Capitalism, etc., Colleen Dunlavy
Organizations and Markets, Nicolai Foss, Richard Langlois, et al.
The Conscience of a Liberal, Paul Krugman
The Past Speaks (Andrew Smith)
Book Series
American Business, Politics, and Society (Penn Press)
Business, History, and Political Economy (Berghahn Books)
Cambridge Studies in Economic History, second series
Cambridge Studies in Modern Economic History
Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism
Financial History (Pickering & Chatto)
Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture (Penn Press)
Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture (Routledge), replaced by Penn Press series, listed above
Harvard Studies in Business History
History of Retailing and Consumption (Ashgate)
Kenneth E. Montagu Series in Oil and Business History (Texas A&M University Press)
Lemelson Center Studies in Invention and Innovation (MIT Press)
Luther H. Hodges Series on Business, Society, and the State (University of North Carolina Press)
New Currents in the History of Southern Economy and Society (University of Missouri Press)
Princeton Economic History of the Western World
Routledge Explorations in Economic History
Routledge International Studies in Business History
Slavery Since Emancipation (Cambridge University Press)
Studies in Banking and Financial History (Ashgate)
Studies in British Business Archives (Ashgate)
Studies in Industry and Society (Johns Hopkins University Press)
Studies in Modern Capitalism (Cambridge University Press)
Worlds of Consumption (Palgrave Macmillan)
Yales Series in Economic and Financial History
Consulting Firms
Datasets
Business Plan Archive (use requires approval)
Columbia Historical Annual Reports
FirstGov Data and Statistics Portal
Global Price and Income History Group
Historical Census Browser, University of Virginia
Historical Financial Statistics
Historical Statistics of Canada
Historical Statistics of Japan
IISH List of Datafiles of Historical Prices and Wages
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS), from the University of Minnesota
Measuring Worth (Annualized Growth Rate of Various Historical Economic Series)
Northwest Historical Annual Reports, University of Washington
Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, Library of Congress
Slavery Era Insurance Registry
E-Texts
Alexander Hamilton's Opinion on the Bank of the United States Avalon Project, Historical Legal Documents
Archive for the History of Economic Thought, McMaster University
Avalon Project, Historical Legal Documents
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Women and Economics
Charter of the Dutch East India Company
Charter of the Dutch West India Company Avalon Project, Historical Legal Documents
Classic Works in Economic History, from SUNY-Oswego
EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents from Western Europe
Frederick Winslow Taylor Collection, Stevens Institute of Technology
Harriet H. Robinson, Loom and Spindle, or Life Among the Early Mill Girls
Historical Trade Directories (England and Wales, 1750-1919)
Horatio Alger Books Online, Google Books
Ida Tarbell, The Business of Being a Woman
Jackson's Veto Message, Bank of the United States Avalon Project, Historical Legal Documents
John Law, 'Money and Trade Considered' Avalon Project, Historical Legal Documents
Lorna Daniells, Studies in Enterprise
Making of America, primary source collection
Taylor, Principles of Scienfific Management, full text
The Currency Act, 1764 (Britain) Avalon Project, Historical Legal Documents
The Great Mirror of Folly, from Beinecke Library, Yale
UCLA's Gross Collection of Rare Books in Business and Economics, Internet Archive
Virginia Penny, The Employment of Women
William Whyte, The Organization Man
Email Lists
NEP-HIS (business and economic history papers from RePEc—see Working Papers section)
From the Editor
Creating Emerging Markets Project, with Geoffrey Jones
Hamilton, Business History, and Teaching General Surveys, with Susan V. Spellman
Hitching (and Tweeting) across Business History, with Chinmay Tumbe Interview with Chinmay Tumbe, Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the Indian Institutes of Management-Ahmedabad, about use of online technologies in the classroom.
Humanities and the MBA, with Rolf Strom Olsen On teaching humanities to MBAs at IE Business School
Recasing the Case Method, with Sharon Ann Murphy
Rethinking Business History in the Classroom
Visualizing the Past, with Paolo Quattrone
Journals
Accounting History Review [formerly, Accounting, Business, and Financial History]
Australian Economic History Review
Business and Economic History On-Line
Business and Economic History Print Archives
Cultur e impresa online (English version)
Economic History of Developing Regions
Economics Journals On-Line, SUNY-Oswego (Meta-list)
Essays in Economic and Business History
European Review of Economic History
Explorations in Economic History
Industrial and Corporate Change
Istituto Datini Listing of Journal Indexes
Japanese Research in Business History
Journal of Historical Research in Marketing
Journals Table of Contents Service
Revista de Historia Económica/Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History
Scandinavian Economic History Review
WWW Virtual Library Listing (Meta-list)
Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte
Magazines and Newspapers
Meta List of Business Magazines
National Business News Media in Europe
Meta-Lists
American Women's History: A Research Guide
Business History Links from UC Santa Barbara
Business History Resources from Friends of Business History
Discovering American Women's History OnLine
Economic History Links from Tennessee Tech
Economic History List from Directory Mozilla
Internet Resources for Economists from SUNY-Oswego
Links from the Brazilian Economic History Association
Links from the Spanish Economic History Association
National Women's History Museum
Scholars' Guide to the WWW, Economics and Business Section
Subject Guide: Women's History at Hagley
WWW Virtual Library: Business and Economic History
WWWVirtual Library: Women's History
Non-BHC Grants, Prizes, and Awards
Alfred and Fay Chandler Book Award, HBS
Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., International Visiting Scholars in Business History Program
Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., Travel Fellowships
BAC Bursary for Business History Research
Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry Grants
Chemical Heritage Foundation Fellowships
Clark Research Grant Program, Benson Ford Research Center
Economic History Association Prizes
German Historical Institute, Washington, DC, Fellowship Overview
GHI Doctoral Fellowship in International Business History
GHI Fellowship in Economic and Social History
GHI Fellowship in the History of Consumption
Grants-in-aid for Research at the Hagley
Hagley Grants and Fellowships, overview
Hartman Center Research Grants
Harvard-Newcomen Postdoctoral Fellowship
Henrietta Larson Article Award, HBS (for best article in BHR)
Henry Belin du Pont Dissertation Fellowship
Henry Belin du Pont Fellowship
Lemelson Center Fellowships, at the National Museum of American History
Library Company of Philadelphia Fellowships
Pasold Research Fund, for research in textile history
Rockefeller Archive Center Grants
Thomas K. McCraw Fellowship in Business History
Virginia Historical Society, Betty Sams Christian Fellowships in Business History
Organizations, Centers, Archives, Libraries, and Museums
A meta-list from the Friends of Business History
Accounting and Business History Research Group, University of Cardiff
All-University of California Group in Economic History
Archives and Manuscripts Division, Hagley Museum and Library
Asociación Chilena d'Historica Económica
Asociación Mexicana de Historia Económica
Association Française d'Histoire Économique
Association of Business Historians (UK)
Association pour l'histoire des chemins de fer
Bank of England Archives Digital Catalogue
Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry
Business and Labour History Group, Auckland University of Technology
Business Archives Council (UK)
Business History at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Business History Initiative, HBS
Business History Research Guide, UK National Archives
Business History: A Guide to Research Materials in Strozier Library, (Florida State University)
Business in the Netherlands in the Twentieth Century
Canadian Corporate Reports, McGill Library
Canadian Network for Economic History
Center for Black Business History, Entrepreneurship, and Technology
Center for Business History, Copenhagen Business School
Center for Economic History, Lomonosov Moscow State University
Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society, Hagley
Center for the Study of Women and Gender
Centre des Archives du Monde du Travail, France
Centre for Business History in Scotland, University of Glasgow
Centre for Business History, Manchester Metropolitan University Business School
Centre for Business History, Norwegian School of Management
Centre for Evolution of Global Business and Institutions, York University
Centre for Global Economic History, Utrecht University
Centre for International Business History, University of Reading
Centro per la cultura d'impresa, Milan
Chinese Business History, UMass Dartmouth
Corporate Reports Online, Penn
Directory of Corporate Archives in the United States and Canada
Economic and Business Historical Society
Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand (EHSANZ)
Economic History Society of Southern Africa (EHSSA)
Economic History Workshop, Harvard University
Economics Departments, Institutes and Research Centers in the World, Economic History Section
European Association for Banking History
European Business History Association
European Network on the Economics of the Firm
Finding Aids for the Hagley Collections
Finding Aids in Business History, Thomas J. Dodd Research Center
Gesellschafts für Unternehmensgeschichte
Global Euronet: Globalizing Europe Economic History Network
Guide to Australian Business Records
Guide to Business History at LSE
Guide to Business History at the Library of Congress
Guide to Business History, British National Archives
Guide to Business History, Thomas Long Library, University of California, Berkeley
Guide to Lehman Brothers Collection, HBS
Guide to R. G. Dun Business Records
Harry W. Bass Business History Collection, University of Oklahoma
Hartman Center Collection Guides
Historical Collections, Baker Library, HBS
Institute for Business History, Germany (now part of ICCA)
Institute for Economic and Business History Research, Stockholm School of Economics
Institute of International Business, University of Central Lancashire
International Business History Institute, University of Nottingham
Lowell National Historical Park
Master Companies List, Library of Congress
Museum of American Financial History
National Bureau of Economic Research
National Iron and Steel Heritage Museum
National Postal Museum, Smithsonian Institution
National Railway Museum, York, UK
Netherlands Economic History Archive
North West Business History Group, University of Liverpool
PEAES Guide to Economic History Research in the Philadelphia Area
Philip Morris Advertising Archive
Program in Early American Economy and Society
Research at the Chemical Heritage Foundation Museum
Reynolds Business History Center, Virginia Historical Society
Science, Technology, and Society, MIT
Scottish Brewing Archives, University of Glasgow
Siemens: 100 Years of Corporate Archives
Society for the History of Technology (SHOT)
Sources for Research in Railroad History, Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, UConn
Southern Labor Archives, Georgia State University
Stichting Bedrijfsgeschiedenis (Netherlands)
The European Business Directory
Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Smithsonian Institution
Web Guide to Photograph Collections, HBS
Winton Centre for Financial History, Newnham College, Cambridge
Winton Institute for Monetary History, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Women in the History of Technology (SHOT)
Tools
Early Modern Europe Currency Converter
EH.Net Encyclopedia of Economic and Business History
History Shots, Data Visualization (commercial site)
International Business Resources from GlobalEDGE
International Search Engine List
Mendeley, free research management tool (software)
Portals to the World, Library of Congress links to Electronic Resources around the World
Voting America, US Politics, 1840-2004
Zotero, Firefox add-on for managing research (software)
Trade Cards
Cigarette Cards, New York Public Library
Cigarette Trade Cards, Wisconsin Historical Society
Die Welt der Sammelbidler: Kaufmannsbilder
Fulton Street Trade Card Collection
Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
Ivory Project: Advertising Soap in America, NMAH
Patent Medicine Trade Card Collection, UCLA
Smithsonian Institution Libraries' Trade Literature Collections
The 19th-Century Trade Card, HBS
Trade Card Exhibit, American Antiquarian Society
Trade Cards, c. 1886-1890, Chicago Historical Society
Trade Catalogs, University of Delaware Library
Victorian Trade Card Collection, University of Iowa
Warwick/Waddesdon Trade Card Project
Web Exhibits
10 Remarkable Women Who Shaped U.S. Business History
50th Anniversary of the Marshall Plan Library of Congress
A Brief History of Marketing from Advertising Age
A Chronicle of the China Trade Harvard Business School
A Daring Experiment Harvard and Business Education for Women
A Few Good Women: Advancing the Cause of Women in Government, 1969-74 Penn State University Library
A Nation of Shopkeepers: Trade Ephemera from 1654 to the 1860s, Bodleian Library
Ad*Access Hartman Center, Duke University Library
Advertising from Harper's Weekly
AdViews Hartman Center, Duke University Library
Agents Wanted: Subscription Publishing in America
Alcohol, Temperance, and Prohibition, Brown University Library
Alexander Hamilton Exhibit, New-York Historical Society
Alice Marshall Women's History Collection (Penn State)
America and the China Trades, 1750-1850, John Carter Brown Library
American Advertising History, A Bibliographic Reference
American Business Leaders of the Twentieth Century Harvard Business School
An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Printed Ephemera Library of Congress
Antique Prints of Bankers, Minting, and Money
Art from the George Arents Collection on Tobacco New York Public Library Digital Galleries
Avon Historical Archive at the Hagley Library
Before e-Commerce: A History of Canadian Mail-Order Catalogues
Beyond Steel: An Archive of Lehigh Valley History and Culture
Black Gold: Canada's Oil Heritage
Boott Cotton Mills Teaching with Historical Places (National Park Service)
Bubbles, Panics, and Crashes Harvard Business School
Burroughs Corp. Image Database, from the Charles Babbage Institute
Business Machinery from HarpWeek
Buy Now, Pay Later: A History of Personal Credit Harvard Business School
Canadian Mail-Order Catalogues
Canadian-Pacific Railway Company, UBC Library
Captured: America in Color, 1939-1943, Farm Security Admin. photos
Central Pacific Railroad Photographic Museum
Centro On Line Storia e Cultura dell'Industria
Century of Entrepreneurial Women
Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Teaching with Historical Places (National Park Service)
Coin and Conscience Harvard Business School
Coins and Currency in Early America, Colonial Williamsburg
Currency Exhibit from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Dates in Business History (in French)
Defining Her Life: Advice Books for Women University of Delaware Library
Digital Accounting Collection, University of Mississippi Libraries
Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls
Doodles, Drafts, and Designs: Industrial Drawings from the Smithsonian Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Du Franc à l'Euro, an illustrated history of French money (in French)
Early Advertising of the West, 1867-1918
Economic History of the Ottoman Empire, University of Connecticut
eHistory at Ohio State, several business and economic history topics
Emergence of Advertising in America Hartman Center, Duke University Library
Emergence of Ring Spinning Harvard Business School
Exploration, the Fur Trade, and the Hudson's Bay Company
Fill 'er Up: A Historical Look at Service Stations
Financial Multimedia, Ohio State
Flint Sit-Down Strike, from Historical Voices Project at MSU
Freshly Brewed: The Coffee Trade and the Port of New Orleans
From Horses to Horsepower: Studebaker Helped Move a Nation Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Geography of Slavery in Virginia, includes database of runaway ads
GM Cars and Trucks, 1902-1938 New York Public Library Digital Galleries
Great Projects: The Building of America, from PBS
Hazardous Business: Industry Regulation and the Texas Railroad Commission
HBS Working Knowledge on Business History
Henry George and the Single Tax New York Public Library Digital Galleries
Historical Returns: Linking Ideas across Time Harvard Business School
History of Canadian Mail-Order Catalogues
History of Capitalism, Colleen Dunlavy
History of the Borsa Italiana (in Italian)
Home Economics Archive Cornell
Hopewell Furnace: A Pennsylvania Iron-making Plantation Teaching with Historical Places (National Park Service)
Household Words: Women Write from and for the Kitchen
Human Relations Movement (Hawthorne Experiments) Harvard Business School
Images of Labor and Urban Affairs, Reuther Library, Wayne State University
In Pursuit of Adventure, Fur Trade in Canada
Industrialization, BBC Society and Culture Series
J. C. Penney Dynamo Newsletters, Southern Methodist University
Jews, Commerce, and Culture, University of Pennsylvania
Landauer Collection of Business and Advertising Ephemera, New-York Historical Society
Lightning Fast: Wells Fargo and the Pony Express—150 Years
Madame C. J. Walker and J. C. Penney Teaching with Historical Places (National Park Service)
Making the Macintosh: Technology and Culture in Silicon Valley, Stanford University Library
Marketing in the Modern Era Harvard Business School
McCormick-International Harvester
Medicine and Madison Avenue Hartman Center, Duke University Library
Minneapolis Seedwomen Catalogs University of Minnesota Libraries
Money: Past, Present, and Future, from Roy Davies
Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Labor Prints, Georgia State University Library
No Job for a Woman Imperial War Museum
Parcel Post: Delivery of Dreams Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Philadelphia on Stone: Commercial Lithography in Philadelphia, 1828-1878
Picturing Business in America: Headcuts from the Wall Street Journal
Plumbers' Wives Women's Auxiliary, National Association of Plumbing, Heating and Cooling Contractors (Smithsonian)
Postal Service in Colonial America, bibliography from the Smithsonian
Probing the Past: Virginia and Maryland Probate Inventories, 1740-1810
Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era Library of Congress
Radical Responses to the Great Depression
Railroad Maps, 1828-1900 Library of Congress
Railroads and the Making of Modern America
Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism Harvard Business School
Remembering Alfred Chandler, HBS Working Knowledge
Risky Business: Winning and Losing in the Early American Economy
Road 2.0: Resource of Outdoor Advertising Descriptions (Hartman Center, Duke University Library)
Rosie Pictures: Select Images Relating to American Women Workers during World War II
Savings Bank History, Savings Banks Museum, Scotland
Searchable Database of Digital Exhibitions
Shifting Gears: The Automobile Industry in St. Louis, 1890-1930, Missouri History Museum
Silk Road Images and Documents, International Dunhuang Project
Southern New England Telephone Company, 1878-1928
Spinning the Web, on the Lancashire Cotton Industry
Sunk in Lucre's Sordid Charms: South Sea Bubble Resources in the Kress Collection Harvard Business School
Taking the Wheel: Manufacturers' Catalogs from the First Decade of American Automobiles New York Public Library Digital Galleries
Taking to the Skies: The Wright Brothers and the Birth of Aviation Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Teaching with Historical Places (National Park Service), Lesson Plans by Topic Teaching with Historical Places (National Park Service)
Temperance and Prohibition, Ohio State University (created by Austin Kerr)
The 1907 Crisis in Historical Perspective
The Automobile in American Life and Society
The Basics of Business History: 100 Events That Shaped a Century
The Funny Side of the Street: Cartoons from the WSJ Harvard Business School
The Great Depression, Gilder Lehrman Center
The Haymarket Affair Library of Congress
The High Art of Photographic Advertising Harvard Business School
The Human Factor Harvard Business School
The Industrial Revolution and the Railway System, Mt. Holyoke College
The Making of a Homemaker Smithsonian Institution Libraries
The Old Girl Network: Charity Cookbooks and the Empowerment of Women
The Telephone, PBS American Experience On-line Materials
The Way We Worked, US National Archives
The Wright Brothers Papers Library of Congress
This Month in Business History
Thomas Dublin Women in the Early Industrial Revolution in the United States
Traces of Advertising Giants, University of Texas
Trade Products in Early Modern History James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota
U.S. Trademark History Timeline
Underwater Web: Cabling the Seas Smithsonian Institution Libraries
US Steel Gary Works Photograph Collection
Virtual Motor City, Reuther Library
Walter B. Wriston Archives, Tufts University
Women in Scottish History, Economics (University of Guelph)
Women Making Financial History
Women Printers in Great Britain
Women's History in Transportation
Women's Work Pat Hudson
Women's Work in the Long 19th Century
Women's Work in the Netherlands, Early Modern Period
Women, Enterprise, and Society
Working in Paterson Library of Congress
Working Papers
European Business Schools Librarians' Group Working Papers
Global Economic History Working Papers, from LSE
Oxford University Discussion Papers in Economic and Social History
Research Papers in Economics (RePEc)
Social Science Research Network
Working Papers from Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Working Papers in Economic and Social History, Cambridge
World's Fairs
A Treasury of World's Fair Art & Architecture, University of Maryland Library
Centennial Exhibition, Philadelphia, 1876
Century of Progress, 1933-1934
Crystal Palace, from McGill University
Expositions History of Expositions from the National Diet Library, Japan (in English)
International Exhibitions 1851-1951, from Glasgow University Library
Les vestiges des expositions universelles de Paris
National Gallery of Art Exposition Images
Paris Exhibitions, 1899, 1900, and others
Paris, 1900, Exposition universelle
