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
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Unfinished Business: A Challenge to Craftsmen



1973

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



1974

Harold F. Williamson
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The Business History Conference and Business History: Some Reflections



1975

Herman E. Krooss
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Some Random Thoughts on Business and Government



1976

Ross M. Robertson
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American Business and American Life: A Bicentennial Appraisal



1977

Donald L. Kemmerer
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John E. Rovensky, 1880-1970, Industrialist and Banker



1978

Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.
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Business History—A Personal Experience



1979

Herman Freudenberger
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An Agenda for Business History



1980

Thomas C. Cochran
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Forty Years of the Cultural Approach to History



1981

Harold D. Woodman
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The Business of Agriculture



1982

Richard W. Barsness
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Transportation in Business History



1983

Fred Bateman
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Business History in an Era of Economic Transformation



1984

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



1985

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



1986

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



1988

Mira Wilkins
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Business History as a Discipline



1989

Wayne Broehl
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The Family Business



1990

Thomas K. McCraw
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Ideas, Policies, and Outcomes in Business History



1991

William Lazonick
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Business History and Economics



1992

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



1993

K. Austin Kerr
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Connections



1995

Edwin J. Perkins
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Banks and Brokers



1996

William H. Becker
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Managerial Culture and the American Political Economy



1997

Mansel G. Blackford
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Business History and Beyond



1998

Leslie Hannah
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America, the Cold War, and I



1999

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