In the 19th and 20th centuries, many major companies formed after mergers opted for generic or universal names.

Jennifer M. Black, Branding Trust: Advertising and Trademarks in Nineteenth-Century America (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024). https://www.pennpress.org/9781512825008/branding-tru...

Call for Proposals

Fed up with the state’s censoring of Plato, Joan of Arc and Romeo and Juliet, humanities professors are leaving Texas public institutions in pursuit of academic freedom.

"Networks of Creative Persuasion in Advertising and Marketing”A Conference at the Hagley Library, Wilmington DelawareFriday November 6, 2026

"Networks of Creative Persuasion in Advertising and Marketing”A Conference at the Hagley Library, Wilmington DelawareFriday November 6, 2026

H-Material Culture seeks applications for a Book Reviews editor, to start in November 2025. This volunteer position is responsible for identifying suitable books for review by the network, locating an...

This week at Eckley, I continued my project of inventorying the old artifact storage house. The week started off with me continuing from where I left off two weeks ago (I took the week of the 4th o…

Every day of this week at Eckley, I continued my big inventory project at our artifact storage house. Just as I had started last week, I went through each and every artifact in the house (of which …

This week at Eckley, I was assigned a few projects involving artifact cleaning in select buildings on-site. I also continued last week’s project of documenting artifacts that were not approve…

Authorities in Manitoba, which shares a border with the U.S., issued a state of emergency. Winds will likely blow wildfire smoke into Midwestern states.

My first week at Eckley Miner’s Village was largely orientational, with much of my time with my supervisors present being spent touring around the complex and being told of its history, intro…

Join us this October for the fourth "For 2026" conference. Call for Proposals now open. Proposals due April 15, 2025.

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose and

In the early nineteenth century, the American commercial marketplace was a chaotic, unregulated environment in which knock-offs and outright frauds thrived. ...

A hundred years ago, the Palmer Raids imperilled thousands of immigrants. Then a wily official got in the way.

In a statement, an Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation."

Private, unidentified security personnel dragged a woman out of the event. It raises questions not just about tolerance for dissent but about who gets deputized to do what.

Index reflects consumer optimism, which is shaky as inflation seems to be stuck and a trade war over tariffs looms

“Trump administration officials fired more than 300 staffers Thursday night at the National Nuclear Security Administration…. Sources told CNN the ...