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Ben Waber @bwaber.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

First was a short discussion with Henry Jacob on viewing the US as a rental empire at the @hagleycenter.bsky.social youtu.be/EQnRVq8hiqY?...

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Renting an Empire: United States in the Caribbean and Arctic in the 20th Century with Henry Jacob

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Hagley Center for the History of Business, Technology, & Society @hagleycenter.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Women own over 40% of businesses in the United States and are responsible for a large majority of new business startups. How did this come to be? Tune in to our latest #HagleyHistoryHangout podcast to find out! Here or wherever you find your podcasts: www.hagley.org/research/his...

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Business History Conference @businesshistoryc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

PhD students in #BizHis: applications are open for the 2027 BHC Doctoral Colloquium in Mexico City, March 18. Work closely with BHC scholars on your dissertation, research strategy, and career development. DEADLINE is Dec. 11, 2026. thebhc.org/doctoral-col... #BHC2027 #Skystorians

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Ben Waber @bwaber.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

BONUS: A great discussion with Debra Michals on the roots of the rise in women's entrepreneurship post WW2 at the @hagleycenter.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKWa...

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She’s the Boss: The Rise of Women’s Entrepreneurship Since World War II with Debra Michals

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Business History Conference @businesshistoryc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It is time to get your panel together for #BHC2027 Deadline is Oct 16 2026 Use the session organizer thebhc.org/session-orga... Please share @entandsoc.bsky.social @hagleycenter.bsky.social #bizhis

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Jennifer Black @blackjen1.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Come check out this conference in November! @hagleycenter.bsky.social #bizhist #skystorians

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BOObka Streisand (Emmy™️) @babkastreisand.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Window displays AND disability representation?!!?! 🫪🫪🫪🫪

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Hagley Center for the History of Business, Technology, & Society @hagleycenter.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Our fall conference, Networks of Creative Persuasion, has a line up and looks great!

Flier promoting the Networks of Creative Persuasion conference at the Hagley Museum and Library on November 6th 2026

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Hagley Center for the History of Business, Technology, & Society @hagleycenter.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Subscribe to the #HagleyHistoryHagnout podcast to catch all these great upcoming episodes in our fall lineup!

Fall 2026 schedule for the Hagley History Hangout podcast

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Hagley Center for the History of Business, Technology, & Society @hagleycenter.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Subscribe to the #HagleyHistoryHagnout podcast to catch all these great upcoming episodes in our fall lineup!

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Hispanic American Historical Review @hahr21.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

HAHR author Ángela Vergara discusses the history of DuPont in Chile with the @hagleycenter.bsky.social podcast. open.spotify.com/episode/5bSi...

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Supplying Extraction: DuPont and the Chemistry of Mining in Chile with Ángela Vergara

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Hagley Center for the History of Business, Technology, & Society @hagleycenter.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The U.S. regulates workplace and the non-workplace environments separately, despite their material inseparability. How and why did the American regulatory landscape come to have this awkward and contradictory split? Join the #HagleyHistoryHangout podcast to find out! www.hagley.org/research/his...

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Gregory A. Hargreaves 🎃 @bordergroves.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Had a great chat w Jasper Cattell about his dissertation research. He formulates a clever question: why are environmental and workplace regulations split into separate categories in the U.S.? While he is still working, his preliminary answers are fascinating. Join us!

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Hagley Center for the History of Business, Technology, & Society @hagleycenter.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

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Hagley Center for the History of Business, Technology, & Society @hagleycenter.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

This #HagleyHistoryHangout explores the ties of capital and labor that bound the Global North and South together during the 20th century. @bordergroves.bsky.social chats w Angela Vergara about her research into DuPont in Chile. Join us wherever you find your podcasts: www.hagley.org/research/his...

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The Syllabus @the-syllabus.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Through a combination of wartime supply concerns and tax incentives, Chilean leaders pressured DuPont and other firms to build a plant in northern Chile in the 1920s. Our podcast of the week dives into the history of DuPont in Chile. With Ángela Vergara on @hagleycenter.bsky.social buff.ly/jpiELEZ

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Gregory A. Hargreaves 🎃 @bordergroves.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

So proud of this forthcoming book! I spearheaded the project, but it was a labor of love for a whole team of talented scholars.

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Hagley Center for the History of Business, Technology, & Society @hagleycenter.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The newest volume in our Hagley Perspectives in Business and Culture book series is now available for pre-order from UPenn Press! How and why do microorganisms, mountains, crabs, and chimps shape business? Check out Raw Capital: More-Than-Human Business History here www.pennpress.org/978151283057...

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Raw Capital – Penn Press

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Business History Conference @businesshistoryc.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Your #BHC monthly newsletter is now available! mailchi.mp/thebhc/the-e... There is an important announcement about how you will receive the next newsletter, so please be sure to check it out. #bizhis #newsletter

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Hagley Center for the History of Business, Technology, & Society @hagleycenter.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

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Business History, a Taylor & Francis Journal @businesshistory.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Business History is inviting applications for an Associate Editor to join its Editorial Team. Application deadline: 1 September 2026 ‼️ @entandsoc.bsky.social @historian-kparkin.bsky.social @hagleycenter.bsky.social @cliochris.bsky.social @businesshistoryc.bsky.social @mariehuber.bsky.social

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Business History Conference @businesshistoryc.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

The Business History Conference #BHC2027 is now accepting proposals Deadline is Oct 16 2026 Use the session organizer thebhc.org/session-orga... Please share @entandsoc.bsky.social @historian-kparkin.bsky.social @umanitoba.bsky.social @hagleycenter.bsky.social @reaktionbooks.bsky.social #bizhis

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Hagley Center for the History of Business, Technology, & Society @hagleycenter.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Our latest #HagleyHistoryHangout traces three centuries of financial speculation in one NE PA township. Join us here or wherever you find your podcasts!

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Business History Conference @businesshistoryc.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

🏆 Hagley Book Prize #BHC #BHC2027 Send your #newbooks to #bizhis ‼️ thebhc.org/hagley before November 30 @hagleycenter.bsky.social @uclpress.bsky.social @historians.org @asianstudies.org @ucpress.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social

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Hagley Center for the History of Business, Technology, & Society @hagleycenter.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Our latest #HagleyHistoryHangout features Rebecca Kobrin discussing her new book "Credit to the Nation: Eastern European Jewish Immigrant Bankers and American Finance, 1873-1930" w @hagleycenter.bsky.social director Roger Horowitz. Wherever you find your podcasts! on.soundcloud.com/iEeBHUg3Hp80...

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Credit to the Nation: Jewish Immigrant Bankers in American Finance 1873-1930 with Rebecca Kobrin

In this episode of the Hagley History Hangout, Roger Horowitz interviews Rebecca Kobrin about her new book, Credit to the Nation: Eastern European Jewish Immigrant Bankers and American Finance 1873-19

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Ben Gross @bhgross144.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Happy 100th birthday to the Ben Franklin Bridge! One of my favorite #Philly memories was walking across it w/a group of @sciencehistory.org fellows en route to a Camden Riversharks game. (1926 aerial photo HT @hagleycenter.bsky.social: digital.hagley.org/1970200_0154...) #Philadelphia #histSTM 🗃️📜

Benjamin Franklin Bridge (J. Victor Dallin Aerial Survey collection (Accession 1970.200)). 1926-07-10. 1970200_01546. Audiovisual Collections, Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, DE 19807. Accessed 2026-07-01; https://digital.hagley.org/1970200_01546.

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Gregory A. Hargreaves 🎃 @bordergroves.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

A perfect example of how creative researchers can use business archives to learn about a wide range of historical and cultural matters. I had a great chat with art historian Jay Buchanan about his use of @hagleycenter.bsky.social collections for his terrific dissertation project Awash! Check it out.

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Hagley Center for the History of Business, Technology, & Society @hagleycenter.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Depictions of bathers tell us about contemporary attitudes toward human bodies, sex, gender, cleanliness, and much more. We discuss the bather in queer and trans art with Jay Buchanan on our latest #HagleyHistoryHangout. Find it here or wherever you find your podcasts: www.hagley.org/research/his...

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Awash: Sensation, Infiltration, and the Bather in Queer and Trans Art with Jay Buchanan

Images of bathers have recurred in art through the ages, and their depictions tell us something about attitudes toward human bodies, sex, gender, cleanliness, and much more. In his dissertation rese

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Daryl @maconfleetwood.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

A lot of the episodes of The DuPont Show with June Allyson are available on @archive.org- a list of the episodes/stars is here (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_DuP...). However, Myrna's episode wasn't anywhere and I really considered it lost media until I found @hagleycenter.bsky.social!

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Gregory A. Hargreaves 🎃 @bordergroves.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

In addition to an introductory essay by my co-editors and myself, the Raw Capital: More-Than-Human Business History table of contents looks like this!

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Hagley Center for the History of Business, Technology, & Society @hagleycenter.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

The latest book in our Hagley Perspectives in Business and Culture series is available for preorder and will arrive spring 2027! Congratulations to all of our friends involved! 🎉

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Hagley Center for the History of Business, Technology, & Society @hagleycenter.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

One of our favorite times of year! Send us your new books in business history (broadly conceived) for consideration in the annual Hagley Book Prize

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Hagley Center for the History of Business, Technology, & Society @hagleycenter.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

One of our favorite times of year! Send us your new books in business history (broadly conceived) for consideration in the annual Hagley Book Prize

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Hagley Center for the History of Business, Technology, & Society @hagleycenter.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Does a strong economy serve the interests of the many or the few? Explore the fiscal history of NYC in our latest #HagleyHistoryHangout! Crises, competing claims on resources, and competing ideas of how to serve the city and its people. Here or wherever you find your podcasts: tinyurl.com/3x5nzrbx

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Menace of Prosperity: NYC's Struggle for Economic Development 1865-1981 with Daniel Wortel-London

Does a strong economy serve the interests of the few or the many? The policy pendulum has swung in either direction over the long term. In his new book, The Menace of Prosperity: New York City and th

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Gregory A. Hargreaves 🎃 @bordergroves.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I had a fascinating chat with @erikisberg.bsky.social about his research into the history of geophysics, which in the interwar years coalesced around a curious mix of internationalism, colonialism, and petroleum!

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Hagley Center for the History of Business, Technology, & Society @hagleycenter.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Geophysics exploded during the interwar years due to a curious confluence of internationalism, colonialism, and petroleum. Learn more on our latest #HagleyHistoryHangout with @bordergroves.bsky.social and @erikisberg.bsky.social here or wherever you find your podcasts: www.hagley.org/research/his...

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International Geophysics in the Interwar Period, 1919-1939 | Hagley

Geophysics, or the study of Earth using the tools and methods of physics, is often understood to have begun in the post-WWII period. However, the period between the world wars saw ferment and innovati...

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BOObka Streisand (Emmy™️) @babkastreisand.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

@hagleycenter.bsky.social 💚

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Hagley Center for the History of Business, Technology, & Society @hagleycenter.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

What do Serra do Navio, Brazil and Bethlehem, Pennsylvania have in common? Postindustrial heritage, preservation, and interpretation. We compare and contrast their distinct histories and heritages on our latest #HagleyHistoryHangout Here or wherever you find podcasts: www.hagley.org/research/his...

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Gregory A. Hargreaves 🎃 @bordergroves.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Our summer season is 🔥

Schedule for the summer 2026 season of the Hagley History Hangout

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