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Beyond Capitalism: Leland Stanford’s Forgotten Vision Published in Sandstone and Tile, Vol. 14 (1): 8-20, Winter 1990, Stanford Historical Society, Stanford, California.
Beyond Steel: An Archive of Lehigh Valley Industry and Culture With an emphasis on industry and society, the Beyond Steel: An Archive of Lehigh Valley Industry and Culture site highlights the Lehigh Valley's mid nineteenth-century boom, late twentieth-century decline and continuing community readjustment.
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Through the digitization and presentation of letters, books, photographs, maps, essays, and oral histories the site will aid researchers in understanding not only the lives of railroad barons and steel titans, but also the experiences of average folks who worked and lived in the community.
Business Regulation Case Study: Standard Oil Mintz, S., & McNeil, S. (2016). Business Regulation Case Study: Standard Oil. Digital History. Retrieved 10/13/17 from http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/teachers/lesson_plans/pdfs/unit7.pdf
Commodore Vanderbilt: Patriot or War Profiteer? Blog post by Post by T.J. Stiles, author of The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt (Knopf).
Hazardous Business: Industry, And the Texas Railroad Commission This Texas State Library and Archives Commission exhibit discusses Jay Gould's opposition to state regulation of the railroads.
The History of the Standard Oil Company Written by journalist Ida Tarbell in 1904, The History of the Standard Oil Company was an exposé of the Standard Oil Company, run at that time by oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller.
Rockefeller Virtual Family Tree with biographies From the Rockefeller Archive Center.
Tales of the Commodore: Cornelius Vanderbilt at 200 A brief look at the life of Cornelius Vanderbilt, reprinted from the Vanderbilt Magazine v77 n3 (Summer 1994): 6-9, 11.