Business and Economic History: Presidential Addresses

The earliest Presidential Addresses of which we have record, those of Richard Overton, Arthur Johnson, and Harold Williamson (1972-1974), have now been scanned and are included in the index below. Glenn Porter's address of 1987 was not published; Richard H. K. Vietor was unable to deliver an address at the 1994 annual meeting because of illness. Presidential Addresses after 1999 are published annually in Enterprise & Society.

1972
Richard C. Overton   View as PDF
Unfinished Business: A Challenge to Craftsmen

1973
Arthur M. Johnson   View as PDF
Business History Research: The Past as Prologue

1974
Harold F. Williamson   View as PDF
The Business History Conference and Business History: Some Reflections

1975
Herman E. Krooss   View as PDF
Some Random Thoughts on Business and Government

1976
Ross M. Robertson   View as PDF
American Business and American Life: A Bicentennial Appraisal

1977
Donald L. Kemmerer   View as PDF
John E. Rovensky, 1880-1970, Industrialist and Banker

1978
Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.   View as PDF
Business History—A Personal Experience

1979
Herman Freudenberger   View as PDF
An Agenda for Business History

1980
Thomas C. Cochran   View as PDF
Forty Years of the Cultural Approach to History

1981
Harold D. Woodman   View as PDF
The Business of Agriculture

1982
Richard W. Barsness   View as PDF
Transportation in Business History

1983
Fred Bateman   View as PDF
Business History in an Era of Economic Transformation

1984
Paul J. Uselding   View as PDF
Recent Trends and Historical Contexts in the Rise and Fall of Economic Regions

1985
Irene D. Neu   View as PDF
My Nineteenth-Century Network: Erastus Corning, Benjamin Ingham, Edmond Forstall

1986
Morton Rothstein   View as PDF
Innocence and Guilt, Comedy and Adventure: Business History as a Human Activity

1988
Mira Wilkins   View as PDF
Business History as a Discipline

1989
Wayne Broehl   View as PDF
The Family Business

1990
Thomas K. McCraw   View as PDF
Ideas, Policies, and Outcomes in Business History

1991
William Lazonick   View as PDF
Business History and Economics

1992
Louis P. Galambos   View as PDF
What Makes Us Think We Can Put Business Back into Business History?

1993
K. Austin Kerr   View as PDF
Connections

1995
Edwin J. Perkins   View as PDF
Banks and Brokers

1996
William H. Becker   View as PDF
Managerial Culture and the American Political Economy

1997
Mansel G. Blackford   View as PDF
Business History and Beyond

1998
Leslie Hannah   View as PDF
America, the Cold War, and I

1999
Jeremy Atack   View as PDF
Quantitative and Qualitative Evidence in the Weaving of Business and Economic History: Western River Steamboats and the Transportation Revolution Revisited