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In the 1930s, staffers at the newly established Federal Communications Commission devised a novel rationale for limiting network power in radio, telephony, and the press. While much has changed since ...

How should we write the history of communications? In Crossed Wires, Dan Schiller provides us with one answer to this question. In a sprawling, often perce

The post office is supposed to serve the public good — not worry about profit.

How the younger brother of the famous general set out to destroy the scourge of monopoly power.

Richard R. John recounts how in the twentieth century the once-mighty Bell System, whose descendants include today’s Verizon and AT&T, waged a powerful decades-long public relations campaign, includin...

The AHA’s Congressional Briefings series seeks to provide Congressional staff members, journalists, and other interested parties with the historical background to topics of current concern.

This essay surveys the main currents of anti-monopoly thought in the period between the American Revolution and World War I, a timespan that has come to be known as the long nineteenth century. It mak...