The webinar focuses on John Merrick (1859-1919), Co-Founder of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company and Alonzo Herndon (1858-1927), Founder of the Atlanta Life Insurance Company. Both the recording and transcript can be found on the African Americans in Business and Entrepreneurship: A Resource Guide.
If you missed our business orientation in June, join us for another short webinar on our business collections at 1pm (EDT) on Wednesday, September 13. Since we can't show you everything in 30 minutes, we'll be using items related to Andrew Carnegie and the steel industry as examples of what you might uncover in these collections!
Have you ever wondered what it takes to get a traveling circus on the road? 2023 Junior Fellow Hannah Meyer has written a post that takes a look under the big top.
Read about the two new entries to Business Reference's This Month in Business History project; one on A. Philip Randolph and one on the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.
If you are researching active companies, we have two webinars -- Doing Private Company Research and Doing Public Company Research -- that may be of interest.
Despite a brief spike in popularity in the early 1920s, iced coffee was not a typical American drink. A number of campaigns from coffee cooperatives sought to change that.
