Developing an Economic Snapshot? The Post-War Years as Example
While the Bulletin published regular tables like “Retail Prices of Food,” it also included articles on more specific topics.
Archive for the Business Category (308 posts)
BEOnline+ Website Database Review: A Junior Fellow Virtual Experience
A reflection from Pariti Sutaria’s time as a Junior Fellow this summer, updating and curating a database of indexed business and economics websites.
Mental Arithmetic
However, practical arithmetic standardized professionalization by treating all students as potential workers in fields that required numeracy skills–from banking and farming to masonry and carpentry. The business application of arithmetic education became so ingrained–apparently to Davidson’s dismay–that by 1895, the West Virginia State Series curriculum defined arithmetic as: “the solving of problems from its various applications to business life.”
Du Pont: From French Exiles to the Toast of the Brandywine
Along the serene Brandywine River in Delaware, in 1802, Eleuthere Irene du Pont de Nemours founded his powder works and began the legacy of a powerful and wealthy French American family…
Numeracy and Crowd Science
Numeracy plays a big role in the lives of data journalists, geographers, and demographers who research and measure large crowds.
Jumping for Joy at a July Return to Reference!
Starting July 26, the Library’s Science and Business Reference Sections will provide reference services in the Main Reading Room, by appointment only, between the hours of 9:30 am – 12:30 pm and 1 pm – 4 pm, Monday through Friday. For science and business reference appointments in the Main Reading Room, call us at (202) 707-5639.
Join us for a virtual Business Research Orientation on July 14
Interested in how to do Business Research at the Library of Congress? Come to our Virtual Business Research Orientation July 14, from 1-2 pm!
Meet Me in St. Louis: The Westinghouse Works at the World’s Fair
Held to celebrate the centennial of Thomas Jefferson’s 1804 Louisiana Purchase, the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair was the perfect place for George Westinghouse to demonstrate his companies’ dominance and specifically, the skills of the 9,000 Pittsburghers who worked in his factories.
American Dynamo: The Life of George Westinghouse
With nearly 400 patents to his name, Westinghouse is a beacon of Gilded Age industry.
The Convict Leasing System: Slavery in its Worst Aspects
While many believe that the 13th Amendment ended slavery, there was an exemption that was used to create a prison convict leasing system of involuntary servitude to fill the labor supply shortage in the southern states after the Civil War.