1. Private Mail Delivery in the United States during the Nineteenth Century: A Sketch John, Richard R. 1986 Articles BusinessEconomic historyPostal serviceGovernment monopolies
2. Out of Control John, Richard R. 1988 Reviews Social sciences and historySociologyCommunication and technologyInformation literacy
3. 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
4. American Historians and the Concept of the Communications Revolution John, Richard R. 1994 Chapters (Layout Features) BusinessSociologyCommunicationInformation literacyHistorians
5. Leonard D. White and the Invention of American Administrative History John, Richard R. 1996 Articles Public administrationHistorySocial sciences and stateWhite, Leonard Dupee, 1891-1958
6. 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
7. 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
8. 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
9. 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)
10. Eben Norton Horsford, the Northmen, and the Founding of Massachusetts John, Richard R. 1998 Chapters (Layout Features) CivilizationHistoryPolitical scienceHorsford, Eben Norton, 1818-1893
11. 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
12. The Politics of Innovation John, Richard R. 1998 Articles Communication and technologyTelecommunication--Technological innovationsPostal servicePolitical science
13. Theodore N. Vail and the Civic Origins of Universal Service John, Richard R. 1999 Articles BusinessEconomic historyTelecommunicationPostal serviceVail, Theodore Newton, 1845-1920
14. Recasting the Information Infrastructure for the Industrial Age John, Richard R. 2000 Chapters (Layout Features) HistoryTelecommunication--Technological innovationsCommunication and technologyInformation scienceInformation literacy
15. Rendezvous with Information? Computers and Communications Networks in the United States John, Richard R. 2001 Articles Information technologyComputer networksComputersData transmission systemsCommunicationHistory
16. 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.)
17. Farewell to the 'Period Party': Political Economy in Nineteenth-Century America John, Richard R. 2004 Articles Political planningPolitical partiesPolitical scienceLearning and scholarship
18. 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
19. Patent Politics: Intellectual Property, the Railroad Industry, and the Problem of Monopoly Usselman, Steven W.; John, Richard R. 2006 Articles Economic historyPatentsRailroadsRailroads and stateFarmersMonopolies
20. Ruling Passions: Political Economy in Nineteenth-Century America John, Richard R. 2006 Articles HistoryPolitical scienceEconomicsPolitical planning
21. History of Universal Service and the Postal Monopoly John, Richard R. 2008 Articles Political planningGovernment monopoliesHistoryHistoriansUnited States Postal ServiceUnited States. Postal Regulatory Commission
22. Telecommunications John, Richard R. 2008 Articles TelecommunicationHistoryIndustrial revolutionCommunication and technology
23. Turner, Beard, Chandler: Progressive Historians John, Richard R. 2008 Articles HistoryPolitical scienceHistoriansHistoriographyChandler, Alfred D. (Alfred Dupont), 1918-2007
24. Why Institutions Matter John, Richard R. 2008 Articles HistoriographyHistoryHistoriansSocial sciences
25. 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
26. Expanding the Realm of Communications John, Richard R. 2010 Chapters (Layout Features) HistoryPostal serviceCommunicationCommunication policy
27. Putting the United States in North America John, Richard R. 2010 Articles HistoryEconomic developmentTerritorial expansion
28. The Political Economy of Postal Reform in the Victorian Age John, Richard R. 2010 Articles Postal serviceCommunication and technologyHistoryEconomics
29. Business Historians and the Challenge of Innovation John, Richard R. 2011 Reviews HistoryBusinessHistoriansTechnological innovations
30. From Franklin to Facebook: The Civic Mandate for Communications John, Richard R. 2012 Chapters (Layout Features) ForecastingCommunication and technologyEntrepreneurshipPolitical science
31. Robber Barons Redux: Antimonopoly Reconsidered John, Richard R. 2012 Articles HistoryMonopoliesPolitical cartoonsBusinessPolitical science
32. Communications Networks in the United States from Chappe to Marconi John, Richard R. 2013 Chapters (Layout Features) Telecommunication--Technological innovationsPostal serviceCommunicationBusiness and politicsHistory
33. American Political Development and Political History John, Richard R. 2014 Chapters (Layout Features) Political scienceSociologyNation-buildingSocial sciences and stateHistory
34. 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
35. Making News John, Richard R.; Silberstein-Loeb, Jonathan 2015 Chapters (Layout Features) Journalism--Technological innovationsPressInternetCommunication and technology
36. 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
37. 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
38. Postal Systems John, Richard R. 2015 Chapters (Layout Features) Social sciencesPostal serviceHistoryCommunication
39. 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
40. Prophet of Perspective: Thomas K. McCraw John, Richard R. 2015 Articles Political planningHistoryBiographersPolitical science
41. Adversarial Relations? Business and Politics in Twentieth-Century America John, Richard R. 2016 Chapters (Layout Features) Political scienceBusiness and politicsIncome distributionJournalism
42. 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
43. Letters, Telegrams, News John, Richard R. 2016 Chapters (Layout Features) Telecommunication--Technological innovationsCommunication and technologyLetter writingTelegraph
44. Proprietary Interest: Merchants, Journalists, and Antimonopoly in the 1880s John, Richard R. 2017 Chapters (Layout Features) JournalistsPolitical sciencePressMonopoliesMerchants
45. 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
46. The State Is Back In: What Now? John, Richard R. 2018 Articles HistoryPolitical sciencePolitics and government
48. '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
49. Corporations, Democracy, and the Historian John, Richard R. 2019 Reviews HistoryCorporationsCorporations--Government policyCorporation lawDemocracy
50. Freedom of Expression in the Digital Age: A Historian’s Perspective John, Richard R. 2019 Articles Freedom of expressionSocial mediaCommunication and technologyCivil rightsHistory
51. Brandeis, Hoover, and the Problem of Fair Trade in Interwar America John, Richard R. 2020 Reviews HistoryEconomic historyCapitalismFree trade
52. 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
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. 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
55. Global Communications Tworek, Heidi J. S.; John, Richard R. 2020 Chapters (Layout Features) HistoryEconomic historyTechnological innovationsCommunication
56. 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
57. 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
58. 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
59. 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
60. The Historical Role of Communications Networks: A Conversation John, Richard R.; Jin, Gengxing 2021 Articles CommunicationInformation theoryTelecommunicationInformation technologyHistory
61. Political Contestation and the Second Great Divergence John, Richard R. 2022 Articles EconomicsHistoryPiketty, Thomas, 1971-
62. Debating New Media: Rewriting Communications History John, Richard R. 2023 Articles CommunicationHistoryTelegraphTelegraph, WirelessCables, SubmarineTelephonePostal service
63. The Tech Giants’ Anti-regulation Fantasy John, Richard R. 2023 Articles Communication and technologyInternetTechnological innovations--Government policyTechnological innovationsHistory
64. Reframing the Monopoly Question John, Richard R. 2024 Chapters (Layout Features) HistoryMonopoliesCommerceEconomic policy