====================== HES POSTING =================== [NOTE: There are several studies of interest to historians of economics in this list. -- RBE] The Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society, Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware has awarded grants-in-aid to support research in the Library's collections to the following recipients. The next deadline is June 30, 1998. Eric Boyles University of Minnesota "Organizing to Innovate: Mergers, Acquisitions, and Divestitures in the American Computer Industry" Anna McCarthy University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill "Television Advertising and the Language of Persuasion, Influence, and Effect" Kevin Reilly University of Massachusetts-Amherst "Corporate Stories: Fortune Magazine and the Making a Modern Managerial Culture" David Robertson University of Missouri, St. Louis "The U. S. Chamber of Commerce: Business Representation in American Policy Making" Henrietta Nickels Shirk University of North Texas "Rhetoric of Cancer Research Funding: Social Responsibility and the DuPont Corporation, 1925-1975" Jonathan Soffer Polytechnic University "American Business and the Moral Economy of Military Keynesianism" Liana Vardi SUNY at Buffalo "The Culture of Physiocracy" Shinichi Korogi Kurume University "A Study on the Development of Managerial Accounting in the Pennsylvania Railroad Company" The Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society offers fellowships and grant support for scholars from the humanities and related social sciences. The Hagley Museum and Library is one of the nation's foremost independent research libraries. Its collections are especially strong in the areas of American business and economic history, the history of science and technology, and the history of industrialization in its social contexts. Scholars working in labor history, social history, arts and industries, as well as business and technology are encouraged to apply. The library is also strong in French history of the Revolutionary period. For further information on these or other fellowship programs and an application packet, please write to Dr. Philip Scranton, Director, Center for the History of Business Technology, and Society, Hagley Museum and Library, PO Box 3630, Wilmington, DE 19807, phone: 302-658-2400, fax: 302-655-3188, or email: [log in to unmask] Website: http://www.hagley.lib.de.us Carol Lockman ============ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ============ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]