This subcategory contains 66 links

1941 Strike at River Rouge Plant(654 clicks)
Henry Ford resists unions

Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields(539 clicks)
Mostly commercial

Aetna History(877 clicks)
Aetna. Inc, 1850-1998.

Alexander Graham Bell(450 clicks)
Alexander Graham Bell and the invention of the telephone.

American Term Life Insurance History(581 clicks)
Although a commercial site, there are good history sections.

B. F. Goodrich Company(588 clicks)

Boeing, A Short History(495 clicks)
Beginning in 1903.

British-American Tobacco Document Collection(454 clicks)
British-American Tobacco Document Collection: Documents from the Guildford Depository

Business History Review(522 clicks)
The premier scholarly journal on business history in the US.

Campbell Soup(467 clicks)
Founded in 1869.

Chevron Corporation(489 clicks)
Includes a histiry of service stations as well as this oil company.

Cigna(511 clicks)
Insurance

Degradation of Work Revisited: Workers and Technology in the American Auto Industry, 1900-2000(489 clicks)
by Stephen Meyer

Enterprise & Society(356 clicks)
The quarterly journal of the Business History Conference; deals with topics concerning the history of business and its interactions with the societies within which it operates.

Events of the Pullman Strike(436 clicks)
A timeline with illustrations.

Fifty Years of Coca-Cola Television Advertisements(471 clicks)
"Fifty Years of Coca-Cola Television Advertisements: Highlights from the Motion Picture Archives at the Library of Congress presents a variety of television advertisements, never-broadcast outtakes, and experimental footage reflecting the historical development of television advertising for a major commercial product. "

Firestone, 1900-2000(454 clicks)
Founded by Harvey S. Firestone of Ohio.

For Women Who Excelled in Business(458 clicks)

General Mills(470 clicks)
Since 1869.

General Motors and the Demise of StreetCars(458 clicks)
by Cliff Slater. Transportation Quarterly, Vol. 51. No. 3 Summer 1997 (45-66). 1997 Eno Transportation Foundation. Inc., Lansdown, Virginia

H-Business(491 clicks)
"H-Business is an on-line newsletter for the Business History Conference. The Business History Conference, H-Net and Eh.Net are the joint owners of H-Business. "

Haymarket Massacre(460 clicks)
Brief description of why it occurred, the police state operations, and the martyrs. Chicago.

Haymarket Massacre archives(428 clicks)
The Haymarket protest meeting on the evening of May 4, 1886, at which several policemen were killed by a dynamite bomb attributed to political radicals.

Hewlett-Packard(446 clicks)
History

IBM Archives(589 clicks)
" Digital Archives IBM is putting its history online - exhibiting highlights from its Corporate Archives, building a reference resource to answer your questions, and digitizing historic company materials for public access. "

Ida Tarbell, The History of the Standard Oil Company(498 clicks)
Electronic text of the famous book.

Ivory Soap Advertising Collection, 1883-1998(452 clicks)

J. P. Morgan(474 clicks)
History, philosophy, and character, The J.P. Morgan legacy

Jack Daniels(551 clicks)
The whiskey.

John D. and Standard Oil(438 clicks)
Biography of John D. Rockefeller and his creation of Standard Oil.

John D. Rockefeller(441 clicks)
Bio and snippets about his good works.

John D. Rockefeller: A Photographic History(460 clicks)
From the Museum of American Financial History.

Johnson & Johnson(456 clicks)
"The development of the first ready-made, ready-to-use surgical dressings by Johnson & Johnson in the mid-1880s marked not only the birth of a company, but also the first practical application of the theory of antiseptic wound treatment. "

Kennedy, 60 Minutes, and Roger Rabbit:(458 clicks)
Understanding Conspiracy-Theory Explanations of The Decline of Urban Mass Transit by Martha J. Bianco, Portland State University, biancom@pdx.edu. November 17, 1998, Discussion Paper 98-11

Kimberly-Clark(495 clicks)
Founded in 1872.

Labor-Management Conflict in American History(447 clicks)
From Ohio State University.

Levi Strauss & Company(491 clicks)
Bluejeans!

Made in Buffalo: How to Research Local Companies(482 clicks)
A guide to researching defunct companies in Buffalo, NY, with descriptions of offline sources and links to online sources

Microsoft(422 clicks)
How Bill Gates got fabulously rich!

Model T(456 clicks)
From the Henry Ford Museum

Museum of American Financial History(495 clicks)
"The Museum showcases the history of Wall Street, the economic miracle of the markets, and the achievements of American businessmen and women from Alexander Hamilton's founding designs for a national economy, to the rise of "dot com" entrepreneurs in the global "new economy."

Museum of Broadcast Communications(470 clicks)
The Museum of Broadcast Communications (MBC) is one of only three broadcast museums in America and home to the nation’s only Radio Hall of Fame.

Railroads, the First Big Business(467 clicks)
Class notes by Professor K. Poole.

Reform and the Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire(435 clicks)
By Hadley Davis in the Concord Review

Richard W. Sears(443 clicks)
Sears was a founder of Sears Roebuck Company.

Robert C. Williams American Museum of Papermaking(455 clicks)
"an internationally renowned resource on the history of paper and paper technology. In addition to more than 2,000 books, the Museum features a remarkable collection of over 10,000 watermarks, papers, tools, machines, and manuscripts."

Sears Archives(532 clicks)
Sears, Roebuck Archives

Texas Instruments(532 clicks)
History.

The Advertising of Installment Plans(433 clicks)
By Sharon Murphy

The American Advertising Museum(406 clicks)
"The Museum and this site are dedicated to the preservation and interpretation of American Advertising."

The Clorox Company(335 clicks)
"On May 3, 1913, five Oakland, California, entrepreneurs invested $100 apiece to set up America's first commercial-scale liquid bleach factory on the east side of San Francisco Bay." And it grew.

The Dramas of Haymarket(344 clicks)
Clever, comprehensive site on the Haymarket affair.

The Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850 - 1920(337 clicks)
The Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850 - 1920 presents over 9,000 images, with database information, relating to the early history of advertising in the United States.

The General Electric Company(315 clicks)
From its origins in London...

The Hagley Museum(332 clicks)
Besides the DuPont Company, it specializes in business and technology history.

The Haymarket Affair Digital Collection(299 clicks)
"The digital collection presents images of key documents and artifacts in their historical context with a minimum of interpretive information. Much like the witness testimony and exhibits introduced during the Haymarket trial, these primary sources are pieces of evidence which enable the user to reconstruct and interpret the historical events to which they relate."

The Parable of Pullman(296 clicks)
Pullman Strike of 1894.

The StreetCar Conspiracy(380 clicks)
Posits the myth that General Motors conspired to destroy the streetcar industry. For an accurate view, see General Motors and the Demise of Streetcars

The Strike at Homestead, 1892(355 clicks)
Workers, steel, Pinkerstons, Carnegie

Thiokol(329 clicks)
"What follows is a short version of Thiokol's more than 50 years experience in the aerospace industry. No serious history of aerospace and rocket propulsion can overlook Thiokol's contributions."

Thomas Edison(321 clicks)
From the Biography Channel.

Top 100 Advertising Campaigns(448 clicks)
Good articles

Twentieth-Century Fox(319 clicks)
History

Union Pacific Railroad(334 clicks)
History and Photos

Wells Fargo(344 clicks)
"Since 1852, the Wells Fargo stagecoach has been a symbol of reliable service across the American West. "

Wells Fargo History(318 clicks)