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