1. Reframing the Monopoly Question John, Richard R. 2024 Chapters (Layout Features) HistoryMonopoliesCommerceEconomic policy
2. Debating New Media: Rewriting Communications History John, Richard R. 2023 Articles CommunicationHistoryTelegraphTelegraph, WirelessCables, SubmarineTelephonePostal service
3. The Tech Giants’ Anti-regulation Fantasy John, Richard R. 2023 Articles Communication and technologyInternetTechnological innovations--Government policyTechnological innovationsHistory
4. Political Contestation and the Second Great Divergence John, Richard R. 2022 Articles EconomicsHistoryPiketty, Thomas, 1971-
5. 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
6. The Historical Role of Communications Networks: A Conversation John, Richard R.; Jin, Gengxing 2021 Articles CommunicationInformation theoryTelecommunicationInformation technologyHistory
7. Brandeis, Hoover, and the Problem of Fair Trade in Interwar America John, Richard R. 2020 Reviews HistoryEconomic historyCapitalismFree trade
8. 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
9. Global Communications Tworek, Heidi J. S.; John, Richard R. 2020 Chapters (Layout Features) HistoryEconomic historyTechnological innovationsCommunication
10. 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
11. 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
13. Corporations, Democracy, and the Historian John, Richard R. 2019 Reviews HistoryCorporationsCorporations--Government policyCorporation lawDemocracy
14. Freedom of Expression in the Digital Age: A Historian’s Perspective John, Richard R. 2019 Articles Freedom of expressionSocial mediaCommunication and technologyCivil rightsHistory
15. The State Is Back In: What Now? John, Richard R. 2018 Articles HistoryPolitical sciencePolitics and government
16. Postal Systems John, Richard R. 2015 Chapters (Layout Features) Social sciencesPostal serviceHistoryCommunication
17. 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
18. Prophet of Perspective: Thomas K. McCraw John, Richard R. 2015 Articles Political planningHistoryBiographersPolitical science
19. American Political Development and Political History John, Richard R. 2014 Chapters (Layout Features) Political scienceSociologyNation-buildingSocial sciences and stateHistory
20. Communications Networks in the United States from Chappe to Marconi John, Richard R. 2013 Chapters (Layout Features) Telecommunication--Technological innovationsPostal serviceCommunicationBusiness and politicsHistory
21. Robber Barons Redux: Antimonopoly Reconsidered John, Richard R. 2012 Articles HistoryMonopoliesPolitical cartoonsBusinessPolitical science
22. Business Historians and the Challenge of Innovation John, Richard R. 2011 Reviews HistoryBusinessHistoriansTechnological innovations
23. Expanding the Realm of Communications John, Richard R. 2010 Chapters (Layout Features) HistoryPostal serviceCommunicationCommunication policy
24. Putting the United States in North America John, Richard R. 2010 Articles HistoryEconomic developmentTerritorial expansion
25. The Political Economy of Postal Reform in the Victorian Age John, Richard R. 2010 Articles Postal serviceCommunication and technologyHistoryEconomics
26. 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
27. History of Universal Service and the Postal Monopoly John, Richard R. 2008 Articles Political planningGovernment monopoliesHistoryHistoriansUnited States Postal ServiceUnited States. Postal Regulatory Commission
28. Telecommunications John, Richard R. 2008 Articles TelecommunicationHistoryIndustrial revolutionCommunication and technology
29. Turner, Beard, Chandler: Progressive Historians John, Richard R. 2008 Articles HistoryPolitical scienceHistoriansHistoriographyChandler, Alfred D. (Alfred Dupont), 1918-2007
30. Why Institutions Matter John, Richard R. 2008 Articles HistoriographyHistoryHistoriansSocial sciences
31. Ruling Passions: Political Economy in Nineteenth-Century America John, Richard R. 2006 Articles HistoryPolitical scienceEconomicsPolitical planning
32. Rendezvous with Information? Computers and Communications Networks in the United States John, Richard R. 2001 Articles Information technologyComputer networksComputersData transmission systemsCommunicationHistory
33. Recasting the Information Infrastructure for the Industrial Age John, Richard R. 2000 Chapters (Layout Features) HistoryTelecommunication--Technological innovationsCommunication and technologyInformation scienceInformation literacy
34. Eben Norton Horsford, the Northmen, and the Founding of Massachusetts John, Richard R. 1998 Chapters (Layout Features) CivilizationHistoryPolitical scienceHorsford, Eben Norton, 1818-1893
35. 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
36. 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)
37. Leonard D. White and the Invention of American Administrative History John, Richard R. 1996 Articles Public administrationHistorySocial sciences and stateWhite, Leonard Dupee, 1891-1958
38. 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