Corporate and Business History

"This listing is not meant to be all-inclusive, but rather to provide a starting point for the exploration of business and economic history materials available on the Web." Topics included are Meta-Lists, Organizations, Email Lists, Blogs, Journals, Magazines, Book Series, Prizes, Grants, Centers, Working Papers, Museums, Archives, Libraries, Audio-Visual, Documents, Data Sets, Web Exhibits, Special Topics, Tools, and Consulting Firms.

"Hagley Museum and Library collects, preserves, and interprets the unfolding history of American enterprise. Hagley's library furthers the study of business and technology in America. The collections include individuals' papers and companies' records ranging from eighteenth-century merchants to modern telecommunications and illustrate the impact of the business system on society." Some of their collections have been digitized and available from your computer.

Join others, "H-Business is the discussion network for the Business History Conference, an international organization devoted to the study of business enterprise and organization and of all aspects of the interactions of business with society, government, and culture in a historical context. "

"The Chronicles is the periodic publication of the Economic and Business History Research Center (EBHRC) of The American University in Cairo (AUC).It encourages an interdisciplinary understanding of the economic and business history of Egypt and the Middle East, encompassing social, anthropological and political dimensions. Our articles draw on, but are not limited to, the primary sources available at EBHRC, including oral narratives and private papers. The Chronicles creates a forum for the dissemination of knowledge. It is a space for research in the making, a venue for the work of young scholars, and a brainstorming platform among academics."

Published in Baltimore, Washington, and Philadelphia, with national readership, the Register was an influential, widely read newsweekly. Extensive coverage of major business developments of the era: the earliest railroads; the Erie Canal and the canal-building boom that followed; the introduction of the steam engine and steam boats; slavery and abolitionism; the Bank of the United States; the financial crises of 1817 and 1837; and the US tariff, nullification, and the growth of American manufacturing.

The 1,280 images in this collection have been selected from a wide range of sources, most of them dating from the period of slavery. This collection is envisioned as a tool and a resource that can be used by teachers, researchers, students, etc.

Site contains the most comprehensive source of data currently available on the trans-Atlantic slave trade.

The library of the New-York Historical Society holds among its many resources a substantial collection of manuscript materials documenting American slavery and the slave trade in the Atlantic world. The fourteen collections on this web site are among the most important of these manuscript collections. They consist of diaries, account books, letter books, ships’ logs, indentures, bills of sale, personal papers, and records of institutions.

The Slave Trade Archives Project, initiated by UNESCO, is concerned with the access to and preservation of original archive materials relating to the slave trade.

Documents regarding slaving through Timbuktu.