1. Why Institutions Matter John, Richard R. 2008 Articles HistoriographyHistoryHistoriansSocial sciences
2. Who Were the Gilders? And Other Seldom-Asked Questions about Business, Technology, and Political Economy in the United States, 1877-1900 John, Richard R. 2009 Articles HistoryTechnological innovationsTechnology--Social aspectsEconomic history
3. When Techno-Diplomacy Failed: Walter S. Rogers, the Universal Electrical Communications Union, and the Limitations of the International Telegraph Union as a Global Actor in the 1920s John, Richard R. 2020 Chapters (Layout Features) HistoryCommunicationCommunication--International cooperationRogers, Walter S.International Telegraph Union
4. Turner, Beard, Chandler: Progressive Historians John, Richard R. 2008 Articles HistoryPolitical scienceHistoriansHistoriographyChandler, Alfred D. (Alfred Dupont), 1918-2007
5. The Tech Giants’ Anti-regulation Fantasy John, Richard R. 2023 Articles Communication and technologyInternetTechnological innovations--Government policyTechnological innovationsHistory
6. The State Is Back In: What Now? John, Richard R. 2018 Articles HistoryPolitical sciencePolitics and government
7. The Public Image of the Universal Postal Union in the Anglophone World, 1874-1949 John, Richard R. 2018 Chapters (Layout Features) Political scienceMass media and businessInternational business enterprisesMass media and public opinionUniversal Postal Union
8. The Politics of Innovation John, Richard R. 1998 Articles Communication and technologyTelecommunication--Technological innovationsPostal servicePolitical science
9. The Political Economy of Postal Reform in the Victorian Age John, Richard R. 2010 Articles Postal serviceCommunication and technologyHistoryEconomics
10. Theodore N. Vail and the Civic Origins of Universal Service John, Richard R. 1999 Articles BusinessEconomic historyTelecommunicationPostal serviceVail, Theodore Newton, 1845-1920
11. The Lost World of Bartleby the Ex-Officeholder: Variations on a Venerable Literary Form John, Richard R. 1997 Articles Social historyHistoryAmerican literatureBartleby, the scrivener (Melville, Herman)
12. The Illusion of the Ordinary. John Lewis Krimmel's Village Tavern and the Democratization of Public Life in the Early Republic John, Richard R.; Leonard, Thomas C. 1998 Articles Community lifeCommunicationPostal serviceKrimmel, John Lewis, 1786-1821United States Postal Service
13. The Historical Role of Communications Networks: A Conversation John, Richard R.; Jin, Gengxing 2021 Articles CommunicationInformation theoryTelecommunicationInformation technologyHistory
14. The Founders never intended the U.S. Postal Service to be managed like a business John, Richard R. 2020 Essays Postal serviceHistoryPublic administrationUnited States Postal Service
15. Telecommunications John, Richard R. 2008 Articles TelecommunicationHistoryIndustrial revolutionCommunication and technology
16. Taking Sabbatarianism Seriously: The Postal System, the Sabbath, and the Transformation of American Political Culture John, Richard R. 1990 Articles HistoryPolitical scienceReligion and politicsPostal serviceSabbatarians
17. Ruling Passions: Political Economy in Nineteenth-Century America John, Richard R. 2006 Articles HistoryPolitical scienceEconomicsPolitical planning
18. Robber Barons Redux: Antimonopoly Reconsidered John, Richard R. 2012 Articles HistoryMonopoliesPolitical cartoonsBusinessPolitical science
19. Rendezvous with Information? Computers and Communications Networks in the United States John, Richard R. 2001 Articles Information technologyComputer networksComputersData transmission systemsCommunicationHistory
20. Reframing the Monopoly Question John, Richard R. 2024 Chapters (Layout Features) HistoryMonopoliesCommerceEconomic policy
21. Recasting the Information Infrastructure for the Industrial Age John, Richard R. 2000 Chapters (Layout Features) HistoryTelecommunication--Technological innovationsCommunication and technologyInformation scienceInformation literacy
22. Putting the United States in North America John, Richard R. 2010 Articles HistoryEconomic developmentTerritorial expansion
23. Publicity, Propaganda, and Public Opinion: From the Titanic Disaster to the Hungarian Uprising John, Richard R.; Tworek, Heidi J. S. 2021 Chapters (Layout Features) Information theoryPropagandaPublic opinionPublicityGovernment information agenciesNewspapersRadio broadcasting
24. Proprietary Interest: Merchants, Journalists, and Antimonopoly in the 1880s John, Richard R. 2017 Chapters (Layout Features) JournalistsPolitical sciencePressMonopoliesMerchants
25. Prophet of Perspective: Thomas K. McCraw John, Richard R. 2015 Articles Political planningHistoryBiographersPolitical science
26. Projecting Power Overseas: U.S. Postal Policy and International Standard-Setting at the 1863 Paris Postal Conference John, Richard R. 2015 Articles International relationsPostal serviceHistoryCommunication
27. Private Mail Delivery in the United States during the Nineteenth Century: A Sketch John, Richard R. 1986 Articles BusinessEconomic historyPostal serviceGovernment monopolies
28. Private Enterprise, Public Good? Communications Deregulation as a National Political Issue, 1839-1851 John, Richard R. 2004 Chapters (Layout Features) Social sciences and stateCommunicationPolitical science
29. Power, Privilege, Precedent: Opponents of the U. S. Postal Monopoly from Anne Royall to Frank Chodorov John, Richard R. 2022 Articles Postal serviceLibertarianismGovernment monopoliesHistoryUnited States Postal ServiceRoyall, Anne Newport, 1769-1854Leggett, William, 1801-1839Spooner, Lysander, 1808-1887Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson, 1854-1939Chodorov, Frank, 1887-1966
30. Postal Systems John, Richard R. 2015 Chapters (Layout Features) Social sciencesPostal serviceHistoryCommunication
31. Political Contestation and the Second Great Divergence John, Richard R. 2022 Articles EconomicsHistoryPiketty, Thomas, 1971-
32. Point-to-Point: Telecommunications Networks from the Optical Telegraph to the Mobile Telephone John, Richard R.; Balbi, Gabriele 2015 Chapters (Layout Features) Telecommunication systemsTelegraphCommunication and technologyCell phones
33. Patent Politics: Intellectual Property, the Railroad Industry, and the Problem of Monopoly Usselman, Steven W.; John, Richard R. 2006 Articles Economic historyPatentsRailroadsRailroads and stateFarmersMonopolies
34. Out of Control John, Richard R. 1988 Reviews Social sciences and historySociologyCommunication and technologyInformation literacy
35. Markets, Morality, and the Media: The Election of 1884 and the Iconography of Progressivism John, Richard R. 2015 Chapters (Layout Features) Presidents--ElectionProgressivism (United States politics)Political scienceVoting
36. Making News John, Richard R.; Silberstein-Loeb, Jonathan 2015 Chapters (Layout Features) Journalism--Technological innovationsPressInternetCommunication and technology
37. Letters, Telegrams, News John, Richard R. 2016 Chapters (Layout Features) Telecommunication--Technological innovationsCommunication and technologyLetter writingTelegraph
38. Leonard D. White and the Invention of American Administrative History John, Richard R. 1996 Articles Public administrationHistorySocial sciences and stateWhite, Leonard Dupee, 1891-1958
39. John Bull, Uncle Sam, Transatlantic Steamships, and the Mail John, Richard R. 2020 Chapters (Layout Features) Postal serviceSteamboat linesTransatlantic voyagesPostal subsidiesCunard Steamship Company, ltd.Collins Line
40. History of Universal Service and the Postal Monopoly John, Richard R. 2008 Articles Political planningGovernment monopoliesHistoryHistoriansUnited States Postal ServiceUnited States. Postal Regulatory Commission
41. Hiland Hall's "Report on Incendiary Publications": A Forgotten Nineteenth Century Defense of the Constitutional Guarantee of the Freedom of the Press John, Richard R. 1997 Articles HistoryAbolitionistsPostal serviceUnited States Postal ServiceHall, Hiland, 1795-1885
42. Governmental Institutions as Agents of Change: Rethinking American Political Development in the Early Republic, 1787-1835 John, Richard R. 1997 Articles Political developmentPolitical planningHistorical sociologyPublic administration
43. Global Communications Tworek, Heidi J. S.; John, Richard R. 2020 Chapters (Layout Features) HistoryEconomic historyTechnological innovationsCommunication
44. From Political Economy to Civil Society: Arthur W. Page, Corporate Philanthropy, and the Reframing of the Past in Post-New Deal America John, Richard R. 2015 Chapters (Layout Features) Civil societySocial sciences and stateSocial responsibility of businessHumanitarianismPage, Arthur W. (Arthur Wilson), 1883-1960
45. From Franklin to Facebook: The Civic Mandate for Communications John, Richard R. 2012 Chapters (Layout Features) ForecastingCommunication and technologyEntrepreneurshipPolitical science
46. Freedom of Expression in the Digital Age: A Historian’s Perspective John, Richard R. 2019 Articles Freedom of expressionSocial mediaCommunication and technologyCivil rightsHistory
47. Five myths about the U.S. Postal Service: It’s not obsolete, and it’s not a business John, Richard R. 2020 Essays Postal serviceHistoryPublic administrationUnited States Postal Service
48. Farewell to the 'Period Party': Political Economy in Nineteenth-Century America John, Richard R. 2004 Articles Political planningPolitical partiesPolitical scienceLearning and scholarship
49. Expanding the Realm of Communications John, Richard R. 2010 Chapters (Layout Features) HistoryPostal serviceCommunicationCommunication policy
50. Elaborations, Revisions, Dissents: Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.’s., The Visible Hand after Twenty Years John, Richard R. 1997 Articles BusinessLiterature and historyBusiness historiansHistoriographyChandler, Alfred D. (Alfred Dupont), 1918-2007
51. Eben Norton Horsford, the Northmen, and the Founding of Massachusetts John, Richard R. 1998 Chapters (Layout Features) CivilizationHistoryPolitical scienceHorsford, Eben Norton, 1818-1893
52. Debating New Media: Rewriting Communications History John, Richard R. 2023 Articles CommunicationHistoryTelegraphTelegraph, WirelessCables, SubmarineTelephonePostal service
53. Cutting back the U.S. Postal Service would hurt the lifeblood of democracy John, Richard R.; Turow, Joseph 2020 Essays Politics and governmentPublic administrationUnited States Postal Service
54. Corporations, Democracy, and the Historian John, Richard R. 2019 Reviews HistoryCorporationsCorporations--Government policyCorporation lawDemocracy
55. Communications Networks in the United States from Chappe to Marconi John, Richard R. 2013 Chapters (Layout Features) Telecommunication--Technological innovationsPostal serviceCommunicationBusiness and politicsHistory
56. Circuits of Victory: L'Entreprise Bell et L'Engagement du Signal Corps en France John, Richard R.; Laborie, Léonard 2020 Chapters (Layout Features) Telecommunication systemsTelecommunication systems--StandardsTelephone systemsWorld War (1914-1918)United States. Army. Signal Corps
57. 'Circuits of Victory': How the First World War Shaped the Political Economy of the Telephone in the United States and France John, Richard R.; Laborie, Léonard 2019 Articles Telecommunication systemsTelecommunication systems--StandardsTelephone systemsWorld War (1914-1918)United States. Army. Signal Corps
58. Business Historians and the Challenge of Innovation John, Richard R. 2011 Reviews HistoryBusinessHistoriansTechnological innovations
59. Brandeis, Hoover, and the Problem of Fair Trade in Interwar America John, Richard R. 2020 Reviews HistoryEconomic historyCapitalismFree trade
61. Beyond the New Deal: Thomas K. McCraw and the Political Economy of Capitalism John, Richard R.; Smith, Jason Scott 2016 Chapters (Layout Features) Political scienceCapitalismNew Deal (1933-1939)Business and politicsEconomics
62. American Political Development and Political History John, Richard R. 2014 Chapters (Layout Features) Political scienceSociologyNation-buildingSocial sciences and stateHistory
63. American Historians and the Concept of the Communications Revolution John, Richard R. 1994 Chapters (Layout Features) BusinessSociologyCommunicationInformation literacyHistorians
64. Affairs of Office: The Executive Departments, the Election of 1828, and the Making of the Democratic Party John, Richard R. 2003 Chapters (Layout Features) Political scienceExecutive powerJournalismDemocratic Party (U.S.)
65. Adversarial Relations? Business and Politics in Twentieth-Century America John, Richard R. 2016 Chapters (Layout Features) Political scienceBusiness and politicsIncome distributionJournalism