A round-up of some recent blog posts, including some from sites not specifically focused on business and economic history:
- The Junto has a recap of the recent PEAES Conference, "Ligaments: Everyday Collections of Colonial Economies"
- The Legal History Blog has a plug for Ajay Mehrotra's recent Making the Modern American Fiscal State
- New Books in Business/American Studies has an audio interview with Sharon Ann Murphy, discussing her Investing in Life: Insurance in Antebellum America [see here for a list of all the subjects covered by the New Books Network]
- The NEP-HIS blog (reviews of recent papers of interest); and
- Andrew Smith, in his blog "The Past Speaks," writes about one of these paper commentaries in "The Business Historian and the Archive in the Post-Snowden Era"
- The Page 99 Test looks at Jonathan Rees' Refrigeration Nation
- Howell Harris, in his blog "A Stove Less Ordinary," posts many examples of and commentary on early stove advertisements in America; many other posts are also of interest
- The Historical Society is running a series of posts by Benjamin Railton extrapolating from Newport, Rhode Island, mansions
- At the History News Network site, Jessica Lepler writes "America Owes a Debt to the National Debt"
- On the Winthrop Group blog, "Intersections," Linda Edgerly talks with Richard Sylla about "Six Fed Leaders Who Have Made an Impact"