Syllabus Archive
This listing of syllabi is an archive of materials sent in by their authors or collected from open web sites from 2009 to 2018. Institutional affiliations reflect the time when the syllabus was composed. Please note that these materials represent considerable time and effort on the part of their authors. They are meant to serve as guidelines for those constructing courses; if you borrow wholesale either language or concept, it would be courteous to acknowledge the source.
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| Course Title | Instructor | Other Info | |
|---|---|---|---|
| History of Business, Markets, and Capitalism | Xaq Frohlich, Auburn University | (Graduate Seminar Fall 2020) | 2020-AU-HIST7970-HistBizMarketsCapital-Frohlich-Syllabus_0.pdf |
| American Business History | Sharon Ann Murphy, Providence College | HIS 367 history of marketing sample.pdf | |
| Marketing Campaigns in US History c.1850-present | Sharon Ann Murphy, Providence College | HIS 366 syllabus spring 2018 sample.pdf | |
| Panics and Depressions in US History 1789-present | Sharon Ann Murphy, Providence College | HIS 364 history of finance sample.pdf | |
| Slavery and Finance in Nineteenth-Century America | Manuel A. Bautista Gonzalez, Columbia University in the City of New York | (Undergraduate Seminar, Spring 2017) | MBG-Slavery and Finance-Syllabus-1.6.pdf |
| Employment Past, Present, and Future | Robert Wright, Augustana University | (Gen ed) | Employment Past Present Future Syllabus in Brief.pdf |
| Global Slavery 10,000 BCE to the Present | Robert Wright, Augustana University | (Gen ed) | SOPHIA Slavery Course Syllabus FINAL.pdf |
| Freedom: Slavery Then and Now | Robert Wright, Augustana University | (Honors course) | Civitas Global Slavery Syllabus Interim 2016.pdf |
| US Economic History | Martha Olney, UC Berkeley, Dept of Economics | (Spring 2015, upper division econ elective) | syllabus.pdf |
| HIS 353: American Capitalism & the Global Economy | Jennifer Black, Misericordia University | (Fall 2016) | HIS 353 f16, for web.pdf |
| Capitalism in America | Dael Norwood, Binghamton University | (Introductory course) | Hist 280G_Syllabus_D8.pdf |
| Economics and Enterprise in Venezuela | Alejandro Caceres, Universidad Catolica Andres Bello, Caracas, Venezuela | (Graduate course taught in Spanish in Economics and History programs) | Manual Seminario Economia y Empresa UCAB mar17.pdf |
| History of Capitalism in the USA | Mark Wilson, University of North Carolina at Charlotte | HIST 3000-A03 History of Capitalism in the USA syllabus Wilson Fall 2017.pdf | |
| History of American Capitalism since 1760: Business, Technology, and the State | Richard John, Columbia University | (This is a Ph. D. level course intended to help prepare graduate students for field exams.) | rjohn-syllabus.pdf |
| Hitchhiker’s Guide to Business and Economies across Five Centuries | Chinmay Tumbe, Indian Institutes of Management-Ahmedabad | Chinmay Hitchhikers guide to business course outline 2017.pdf | |
| Business History | Chinmay Tumbe, Indian Institutes of Management-Ahmedabad | Chinmay Business History_Course Outline_Tumbe.pdf | |
| Critical Management Thinking | Rolf Strom-Olsen, IE Business School | Syllabus, CMT 2015.pdf | |
| Networks and Empires: Economic History of the Atlantic World | Joseph Adelman, Framingham State University | (Fall 2014) | Adelman - HSTW 345 Syllabus.pdf |
| The World Economy | Mira Wilkins, Florida International University | (Spring 2012) | wilkins.pdf |
| The American Dream in an Age of Global Capital | Shane Hamilton, University of Georgia | (2013) | 01_HIST4030_Syllabus.pdf |
| Organization of Industry (2003) | Richard Langlois, University of Connecticut | e267syl.htm | |
| Rise of the American Corporation (2009) | Paula Petrik, George Mason University | hist615sec006.pdf | |
| Economics of Institutions (1988) | Oliver Williamson, University of California, Berkeley | econ_224_fl88.pdf | |
| History of the American Petroleum Industry (2009) | Jonathan Coopersmith, Texas A&M University | syl360-09.pdf | |
| The Car in History: Business, Culture, Society and the Automobile in North America (2008-2009) [seminar] | Dimitry Anastakis, Trent University | Anastakis.pdf | |
| History of American Transportation (2012) | H. Roger Grant, Clemson University | grant.pdf | |
| Seminar in Southern Industrialization (2011) | Angela Lakwete, Auburn University | hist7530.html | |
| A Short History of Wall Street (2011) [summer school] | Atiba Pertilla, New York University | Summer2011HIST112.pdf | |
| History of the Great Depression (2010) | Daniel Pope, University of Oregon | Pope463.pdf | |
| New Deal America (2000) | Gail Radford, University at Buffalo, SUNY | radford.pdf | |
| The Great Depression (2010) [MBA course] | Amity Shlaes, Stern School of Business, New York University | Shlaes_ECON-GB.2129_GreatDepression.pdf | |
| U.S. Political Economy since the Great Depression (2006) | David Stebenne, Ohio State University | stebenne.pdf | |
| History of Technology and Engineering in America (2007) | Jonathan Coopersmith, Texas A&M University | SYL364.10.pdf | |
| Technology, Information and Business since 1865 (2001) | Thomas Haigh, Colby College | ad298 | |
| Rise of Industrial Research and Development (1997) | David A. Hounshell, Carnegie Mellon University | 79-440syl.htm | |
| Making the Modern World: The Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective (2009) | Merritt Roe Smith, MIT | sts-025j-making-the-modern-world-the-industrial-revolution-in-global-perspective-fall-2009 | |
| Economic History of Financial Crises (2009) | Peter Temin, MIT | 14-71-economic-history-of-financial-crises-fall-2009 | |
| America, 1918-1945: Prosperity, Depression, and War (undated) | Alan Brinkley, Columbia University | 3649 | |
| Capitalism and Globalization since 1492 (2008) | Samuel White, Oberlin College | 810893.pdf | |
| History of Globalization (2011) | Gianni Toniolo, Duke University | Toniolo.pdf | |
| Capitalism, Socialism, and Globalization (2011) | Marc J. Stern, Bentley University | Stern.pdf | |
| Past, Present and Future of Globalization (2010) | Dani Rodrik, Harvard University | ITF-145.pdf | |
| Long-Term History of Globalization (2012) | Gene Ogle, John Cabot University | syllabus_print.aspx?IDS=4804 | |
| Business in the Global Environment (2010) | Leslie Hannah and Geoffrey Owen, London School of Economics | teaching_230_1.pdf | |
| Introduction to the Global Economy (2010) | Jens Christiansen, Mt. Holyoke College | homepage.html | |
| Financial Crises: A Global Perspective (2011) | Robert Wright, Augustana College | wright3.pdf | |
| Technologies and Their Societies: Historical Perspectives (2006) | Michael Mahoney, Princeton University | 398syl.html | |
| Technology in American History (2006) | Merritt Roe Smith, MIT | sts-001-technology-in-american-history-spring-2006 | |
| History of Money in America (2008) | Stephen Mihm, University of Georgia | HIST_4000_mihms_0808.pdf | |
| The Development of Financial Institutions and Markets (2009) [MBA course] | Richard Sylla, Stern School of Business, New York University | Sylla_ECON-GB.2392_DevFincInstMrkts.pdf | |
| Money and Power in the Western World, 1700-2010 (Stern School, NYU, Summer, 2012) | Robert Wright, Augustana College | wright4.pdf | |
| Multinational Enterprises (2008) [graduate seminar] | Lorraine Eden, Texas A&M University | Eden-MultinationalEnterprises.pdf | |
| The Multinational Enterprise (2007) | Abigail Hornstein, Wesleyan University | ||
| Unnatural Persons: The Company in Historical and Social Context (2008) | David Brunner, Harvard University | Brunner.pdf | |
| Organizational Analysis (2004) | Frank Dobbin, Harvard University | 224syl.pdf | |
| Introductory Seminar in the Historiography of Technology (2010) [graduate] | Angela Lakwete and William Trimble, Auburn University | hist7510.html | |
| The Legal Architecture of Globalization: The History and Institutional Development of Money and Finance (2010) | Christine Desan, Harvard Law School | Desan.pdf | |
| First Industrial Revolution (2010) | George Selgin, University of Georgia | selgin.pdf | |
| Technology in American History (2003) | Merritt Roe Smith, MIT | syllabus.pdf | |
| Technology and the Shaping of America (2009) | Steven Usselman, Georgia Institute of Technology | hts3083.pdf | |
| Technology in History (2010) | Rosalind Williams, MIT | sts-007-technology-in-history-fall-2010 | |
| The Spread of Industrialization in Asia, Africa and Latin America (2012) | Gareth Austin, Graduate Institute, Geneva | HP006.pdf | |
| Aspects of the Industrial Revolution in Britain | Gerard M. Koot, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth | welcome.cfm | |
| Industrial Revolution in America (2007) | Gary Kornblith, Oberlin College | 774799.pdf | |
| Industrial Revolution/Information Revolution: A Comparative Perspective (2001) | Gary Kornblith, Oberlin College | 774588.pdf | |
| Industrial America (2012) | Andrew L. Russell, Stevens Institute of Technology | HHS414 | |
| The Culture of the Market in 19th-Century America (undated) [MA course] | Peter Knight, University of Manchester | Knight.pdf | |
| The Atlantic World, 1450-1780: Culture, Society, Economy (2005) | Cathy Matson, University of Delaware | H667.html | |
| Business Enterprise and American Culture (1999) [graduate seminar] | Mary Yeager, UCLA | hist255a-1 | |
| Select Topics in Business History (Canada) (2009) [seminar] | Ben Forster, University of Western Ontario | Forster.pdf | |
| Using History to Make Strategic Choices (Canadian Business History) (2011) | Joe Martin, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Martin.pdf | |
| Canadian Economic History (2011) | Robin Neill, University of Prince Edward Island | syl_221.285.html | |
| Business and Politics (2009) | Mcgee Young, Marquette University | 4321Young.pdf | |
| Business Organizations and Political Economy (2011) [graduate] | Steven Usselman, Georgia Institute of Technology | hts6106.pdf | |
| Politics of Business Regulation (2003) | David Robertson, University of Missouri, St. Louis | sy241.html | |
| Industry and Government (2001) | Richard Langlois, University of Connecticut | e264syl.html | |
| Perspectives on Regulation (2003) | Jeffrey A. Eisenach and Randolph J. May, George Mason University Law School | Eisenach_Regulation2.pdf | |
| History of Black Entrepreneurship in the United States (2012) | Juliet E. K. Walker, University of Texas, Austin | 1892093 | |
| History of African American Entrepreneurship (2009) | Maceo Dailey, University of Texas, El Paso | dailey2.pdf | |
| History of Black Business in America, 1600 to the Present (2005) | Maceo Dailey, University of Texas, El Paso | dailey.pdf | |
| Capitalism in Canada (2012) | Robin Neill, University of Prince Edward Island | canec_syl.html | |
| The Entrepreneur and Canadian Business History (2008) | Andrew D. Smith, Laurentian University | HIST3226Outline08.pdf | |
| Big Shots and Small Potatoes: A History of Business People in the United States (2001) [seminar] | Mary Yeager, UCLA | hist197k-1 | |
| Women, Men, and Entrepreneurship in America, 1900 to 2000 (2007) [seminar] | Mary Yeager, UCLA | hist191d-4 | |
| Entrepreneurship around the World (2012) | Robert Wright, Augustana College | wright2.pdf | |
| Entrepreneurs in American History (2011) | Robert Whaples, Wake Forest University | Whaples.pdf | |
| Carnegie, Rockefeller, and Ford and the World They Made (undated; c. 1999) | Frank Stricker, California State University, Dominguez Hills | one.html | |
| The Consumer Society (2010) | Brian Roach, Tufts University | CS.html | |
| Consumer Culture (2012) [seminar] | Daniel Pope, University of Oregon | 407syllabus.htm | |
| History of Consumerism (2012) | Marilyn Halter, Boston University | 475Sprg12.pdf | |
| Consumer Culture in America (2007) | Seth Cotlar, Willamette University | cotlar.pdf | |
| Consumerism and the World of Goods in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British America (2010) | Vivian Conger, Ithaca College | Conger.pdf | |
| Social History of Consumption (2008) | Timothy Burke, Swarthmore College | history-88-the-social-history-of-consumption-spring-2008 | |
| Transnational Commodity Culture (2008) | Elspeth Brown, University of Toronto | ebrown.pdf | |
| Canadian Business History in a Global Context (2012) | Graham D. Taylor, Trent University | Taylor.pdf | |
| Crisis Economics: History and Evaluation of the Policy Response to the Great Recession (2011) | Lawrence Summers, Harvard University | BGP-266M.pdf | |
| African American Entrepreneurship (2011) | Thomas Boston, Georgia Tech | Boston_4450_AfrAmerEntre.pdf | |
| The Economic History of Entrepreneurship (2011) | Robert Rogers, Ashland University | Rogers.pdf | |
| Political Economy of Japan (1997) | Jeffrey Bernstein, Harvard University | bernstein.html | |
| Economic Development of China (2010) | Loren Brandt, University of Toronto | Brandt.pdf | |
| East Asian Organizations in Comparative Perspective (2007) | Julian Dierkes, University of British Columbia | easianorgs_cal.html | |
| Varieties of Capitalism in East Asia (2008) | Myung-Koo Kang, Stanford University | ||
| Commerce and Culture in China's Past (2010) | Ong Keong, National University of Singapore | view_moduleoutline.aspx?CourseID=E333EABC-C217-40D7-B8F2-8936E165DBFE&ClickFrom=StuViewBtn | |
| Political Economy of East Asia (2007) | Barrett Mccormick, Marquette University | 263McCormick.pdf | |
| Business and East Asian Culture, 1800-Present (2011) | Brett Sheehan, University of Southern California | sheehan.pdf | |
| Economic History of Latin America (2012) | Ricardo D. Salvatore, Graduate Institute, Geneva | HP032.pdf | |
| Cultural History of Capitalism in Latin America (2010) | Pamela Voekel, University of Georgia | HIST_8200_voekelp_0210.pdf | |
| History of Mexican Industry and Industrial Labor, 1546-2005 (2006) | John Womack, Harvard University | womack2781.html | |
| Economic Institutions in Comparative Historical Perspectives (2006) | Chiaki Moriguchi, Northwestern University | econ498.pdf | |
| World Economy (undated, c. 2010) | Kevin O'Rourke, Trinity College Dublin | EC4020.pdf | |
| The Emergence of Modern Economic Growth: A Comparative and Historical Analysis(2009) [graduate] | James Robinson, Harvard University | Robinson.pdf | |
| Economic History (world) (2006) [graduate] | Peter Temin and Dora Costa, MIT | 14-731-economic-history-fall-2006 | |
| Business, Governments, and the International Economy (1999) | Mary Yeager, UCLA | hist197n-1 | |
| Thinking about Capitalism (2010) | Daniel Pope, University of Oregon | Pope608.pdf | |
| History of Capitalism in the Americas, 1870-2008 (2008) | Pamela Voekel, University of Georgia | HIST_3720H_voekelp_0000.pdf | |
| The Many Faces of Capitalism (2008) [seminar] | Mary Yeager, UCLA | hist251a-1 | |
| Political Economy of American Development, 1860-1900 (2005) | Richard Bensel, Cornell University | 611.pdf | |
| American Economic History (2008) | Paul A. David, Stanford University | ||
| American Economic History (2006) | Gus Giebelhaus, Georgia Institute of Technology | hts3001a.pdf | |
| American Economic History since 1865 (2003) | George Green, University of Minnesota | Hist3845syll.pdf | |
| U.S. Economic History (2011) | George Green, University of Texas, Arlington | green_texas.pdf | |
| Globalization: A Hitchhiker's Guide to World Capitalism (2009) | Robert Penner, Duke University | ||
| Comparing Capitalism (2003) [freshman seminar] | Chiaki Moriguchi, Northwestern University | econ101.pdf | |
| Rise of Capitalism (1998) | Russell Johnson, Bilkent University | syl_559.htm | |
| Varieties of Capitalism (2010) | Mitchell Orenstein, Johns Hopkins University | orenstein.pdf | |
| History of Capitalism (2011) [graduate seminar] | Sven Beckert, Harvard University | beckert.pdf | |
| History of European Capitalism | Sven Beckert, Harvard University | beckert4.pdf | |
| The Political Economy of Modern Capitalism (2010) [graduate seminar] | Sven Beckert and Christine Desan, Harvard University | beckert-desan.pdf | |
| Politics, Markets and Theories of Capitalism (2009) | Craig Borowiak, Haverford College | Borowiak.pdf | |
| Intellectual History of Capitalism, 1900-Present (2012) | Angus Burgin, Johns Hopkins University | burgin2.pdf | |
| Origins of Global Capitalism (undated) [MA course] | Erik Grimmer-Solem, Wesleyan University | syb_socs615.html | |
| History of Capitalist Development in Europe and the World Economy (2011) | Carol Heim, University of Massachusetts, Amherst | Econ_763_CH.pdf | |
| Topics in U.S. Economic History: Business and Labor History (2008) | Patrick Reagan, Tennessee Technological University | 423syl.html | |
| U.S. Economic History (2012) | John Reed, University of Utah | organization_298_1326140345.pdf | |
| U.S. Economic History (2010) | Jared Rubin, California State University, Fullerton | Syllabus-Econ350.pdf | |
| Current Trends in Economic History (2012) | Youssef Cassis and Chris Colvin, European University Institute | teaching_229_1.pdf | |
| World Economic History (2011) [graduate] | Gregory Clark, University of California, Davis | ||
| World Economic History before the Industrial Revolution (2012) | Gregory Clark, University of California, Davis | ||
| Economic History of Iberia, Iberian America, and the Atlantic World (2010) | Rafael Dobado-Gonzalez, Columbia University | ||
| World Economy in the Twentieth Century (2009) | Barry Eichengreen, University of California, Berkeley | Eichengreen115_syl_1-14-09.pdf | |
| Themes in Global History: Trade, Economy, and Empires (2012) | Jari Eloranta, Appalachian State University | world1130syllabus.pdf | |
| World Economic History (2012) | J. Peter Ferderer, Macalester College | ||
| Global History: Institutions and Development (1688-2000) (2012) | Marc Flandreau, Graduate Institute, Geneva | HP027.pdf | |
| Introduction to Economic History (2011) | Carol Heim, University of Massachusetts, Amherst | Econ_703_CH.pdf | |
| Economics, Politics, and International Change: The Modern World Economy (2012) | J. Lawrence Broz, University of California, San Diego | Syllabus_INTL102_S12_web.pdf | |
| Twentieth-Century U.S. Economic History (2011) | Marc J. Stern, Bentley University | Stern3.pdf | |
| U.S. Economic History (2010) | Larry Sawers, American University | ||
| History of the American Economy (2010) | Marc J. Stern, Bentley University | Stern2.pdf | |
| American Economic Development (2004) | Richard Saunders, Clemson University | 325SYL.html | |
| U.S. Economic History (2008) | Gavin Wright, Stanford University | ||
| European Economic History (2001) | Richard Langlois, University of Connecticut | E201SYL.html | |
| Economic History of Europe (2006) | Richard Langlois, University of Connecticut | E201SYL.html | |
| European Economic History (2011) | Jared Rubin, California State University, Fullerton | Syllabus-Econ351.pdf | |
| Economic History of Modern Europe: European Industrialization (2011) | George Sheridan, University of Oregon | Sheridan425EI.pdf | |
| Readings Seminar in American Capitalism | Sean Adams, University of Florida | amh5930.pdf | |
| History of American Capitalism (undated) | Sven Beckert, Harvard University | beckert2.pdf | |
| Introduction to the History of Business and Commerce (2011) | Jeffery Vacante, University of Western Ontario | 1803E-001Vacante.pdf | |
| Business and Economic History (2006) | Marko Maunula, Clayton State University | Maunula.pdf | |
| Business History in a Long-Term Perspective (2007) | Giovanni Favero, Ca' Foscari University | nqcontent.cfm?a_id=30434 | |
| History of International Business (2011) [graduate] | John Cantwell, Rutgers University | cantwell.pdf | |
| Comparative Business History (undated) [MA] | Ludovic Cailluet, IAE, Toulouse | cailluet.pdf | |
| Comparative Business History (2006) | Mansel Blackford, Ohio State University | blackford1.pdf | |
| International Economic and Business History (2010) | Bernardo Batiz-Lazo, Bangor University (Wales) | batiz-lazo.pdf | |
| Dynamics of American Capitalism (2012) | Michael Block, University of Southern California | block.pdf | |
| History of Capitalism (2012) [graduate seminar] | Angus Burgin, Johns Hopkins University | burgin1.pdf | |
| History of American Capitalism (2011) | Chris Castaneda, California State University, Sacramento | hist164f03.pdf | |
| American Consumer Capitalism (2005) | David Suisman, University of Delaware | syllabus.html | |
| Politics of American Capitalism | Mcgee Young, Marquette University | 4341Young.pdf | |
| Clash of Capital and Class in America (2011) | Robert Wright, Augustana College | wright1.pdf | |
| American Capitalism: Readings in U.S. Economic and Business History (2008) [graduate] | David Sicilia, University of Maryland | ||
| American Capitalism (2010) | Marc Schneiberg, Reed College | soc340_s10.pdf | |
| U.S. Capitalism to 1877 (2010) | Allan Kulikoff, University of Georgia | HIST_4028_kulikoffa_0110.pdf | |
| The History of American Capitalism since 1760: Business, Technology, and the State(2013) [graduate] | Richard John, Columbia University | john2013.pdf | |
| Capitalism in America (2011) | David Hochfelder, SUNY, University at Albany | hochfelder.pdf | |
| History of American Capitalism (2012) | Colleen Dunlavy, University of Wisconsin | index.html | |
| History of American Business (2010) | Tonia Compton, Columbia College | syllabus_master.asp?PREFIX=HIST&COURSENUM=371 | |
| Business and Economic History (2011) | Scott Carson, University of Texas, Permian Basin | Carson.pdf | |
| A History of American Business (2007) | William Becker, George Washington University | Becker.pdf | |
| U.S. Economic and Business History (2011) | Jonathan Bean, Southern Illinois University | bean.pdf | |
| Research Paper Guidelines | Edward Balleisen, Duke University | balleisen2.pdf | |
| American Business History (2010) | Edward Balleisen, Duke University | balleisen1.pdf | |
| American Business History (2003) | Anita Ashendel, Indiana University/Purdue University Indianapolis | a421c278.htm | |
| History of American Business (2010) | Joshua Davis, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | hist364.html | |
| History of American Business (2008) | Gus Giebelhaus, Georgia Institute of Technology | hts3002.pdf | |
| Labor and Business in American History (2012) | Louis Hyman, Cornell University | hyman.pdf | |
| United States Economic and Business History (2011) | Andrew Kersten, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay | ||
| American Business History (2012) | Daniel Pope, University of Oregon | pope.pdf | |
| American Business History (2005) | Jonathan Rees, Colorado State University | ||
| Economic and Business History of the United States (2010) | George Smith, Stern School of Business, New York University | Smith_ECON-GB.2330_EconBusHistoryUS.pdf | |
| American Business History (undated) | Mark Thomas, University of Virginia | hius341 | |
| Strategy, Leadership, and Change: Transitions in American Business (2008) [MBA course] | Allen Webb, University of Washington | MGMT579_AUT08_Strat,Ld,Chng.pdf | |
| American Business History, 1800-1980 (2011) | Michael Nash, New York University | Nash.pdf | |
| American Business History | Edward Balleisen, Duke University | (2010) | balleisen1.pdf |