The question of who invented the telephone has long been a subject of both popular history
and scholarly debate. This article shows that the question itself is a legal artifact." Who …

Since 2004 policy makers at the state level have been proposing legislation to prevent local
municipalities from developing or deploying some form of broadband Internet infrastructure …

Three themes dominate recent historical writing by historians on the American state in the
period before 1900. The first is the agency of specific governmental institutions such as the …

Life-long learning is not a new concept in my family. I was in sixth grade when my father
earned his Ph. D. My mother was a grandmother when she graduated from law school. They …

Résumé Cette thèse étudie le rôle de l'État dans le développement économique du Canada
entre 1846 et la Première Guerre mondiale à travers l'exemple de l'industrie télégraphique …

Рассматривается процесс выработки основных принципов государственного
управления телефонным делом, в частности распространением телефонных сетей …

L'article concerne l'influence des processus sociaux transnationaux–expansion territoriale,
développement économique–sur le cours de l'histoire des Etats-Unis entre leur accession à …

“Recent Scholarship” is available to oah members online. Unlike the print version, which will
continue to appear, the database provides a fully searchable list of citations and allows the …