1. Debating New Media: Rewriting Communications History John, Richard R. 2023 Articles CommunicationHistoryTelegraphTelegraph, WirelessCables, SubmarineTelephonePostal service
2. The Tech Giants’ Anti-regulation Fantasy John, Richard R. 2023 Articles Communication and technologyInternetTechnological innovations--Government policyTechnological innovationsHistory
3. Political Contestation and the Second Great Divergence John, Richard R. 2022 Articles EconomicsHistoryPiketty, Thomas, 1971-
4. The Historical Role of Communications Networks: A Conversation John, Richard R.; Jin, Gengxing 2021 Articles CommunicationInformation theoryTelecommunicationInformation technologyHistory
5. Freedom of Expression in the Digital Age: A Historian’s Perspective John, Richard R. 2019 Articles Freedom of expressionSocial mediaCommunication and technologyCivil rightsHistory
6. The State Is Back In: What Now? John, Richard R. 2018 Articles HistoryPolitical sciencePolitics and government
7. 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
8. Prophet of Perspective: Thomas K. McCraw John, Richard R. 2015 Articles Political planningHistoryBiographersPolitical science
9. Robber Barons Redux: Antimonopoly Reconsidered John, Richard R. 2012 Articles HistoryMonopoliesPolitical cartoonsBusinessPolitical science
10. Putting the United States in North America John, Richard R. 2010 Articles HistoryEconomic developmentTerritorial expansion
11. The Political Economy of Postal Reform in the Victorian Age John, Richard R. 2010 Articles Postal serviceCommunication and technologyHistoryEconomics
12. 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
13. History of Universal Service and the Postal Monopoly John, Richard R. 2008 Articles Political planningGovernment monopoliesHistoryHistoriansUnited States Postal ServiceUnited States. Postal Regulatory Commission
14. Telecommunications John, Richard R. 2008 Articles TelecommunicationHistoryIndustrial revolutionCommunication and technology
15. Turner, Beard, Chandler: Progressive Historians John, Richard R. 2008 Articles HistoryPolitical scienceHistoriansHistoriographyChandler, Alfred D. (Alfred Dupont), 1918-2007
16. Why Institutions Matter John, Richard R. 2008 Articles HistoriographyHistoryHistoriansSocial sciences
17. Ruling Passions: Political Economy in Nineteenth-Century America John, Richard R. 2006 Articles HistoryPolitical scienceEconomicsPolitical planning
18. Rendezvous with Information? Computers and Communications Networks in the United States John, Richard R. 2001 Articles Information technologyComputer networksComputersData transmission systemsCommunicationHistory
19. 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
20. 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)
21. Leonard D. White and the Invention of American Administrative History John, Richard R. 1996 Articles Public administrationHistorySocial sciences and stateWhite, Leonard Dupee, 1891-1958
22. 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