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<font size=4><b>Please join us on Monday for a colloquium co-sponsored by
MIT's STS Program and History Faculty:<br><br>
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Monopoly: The Political Economy of <br>
American Telegraphy during the Civil War Era<br><br>
</font><font size=5>Richard R. John, University of Illinois at
Chicago<br><br>
November 15, 2004<br><br>
4:00 p.m., MIT E51-095<br><br>
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Richard R. John is a professor of history at the University of Illinois
at Chicago, where he specializes in the history of business, technology,
and <br>
communications. His publications include <u>Spreading the News: The
American Postal System from Franklin to Morse</u> (Harvard University
Press, 1995). <br>
His presentation on Monday, "Unnatural Monopoly: The Political
Economy of Western Union in Civil War America" is drawn from his
forthcoming <br>
history of American telecommunications, which is tentatively entitled
"Making Connections: The Contested Origins of American
Telecommunications."<br><br>
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Debbie Meinbresse<br>
STS Program, MIT<br>
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