 | "John Wanamaker" |
| American History Illustrated (December 1980) 8-15 |
| "E. P. Alexander" |
| Encyclopedia of Southern History |
| "Thomas A. Scott" |
| Encyclopedia of American Biography |
| "From Utopia to Mill Town" |
| American History Illustrated (October 1981) 34-40, 48; (November 1981) 36-43 |
| "Frederick Law Olmsted" |
| American History Illustrated (November 1981) 30-35 |
| "The North at War" in William C. Davis (ed.) |
| Shadows of the Storm (Garden City, 1981) 364-373 |
| "Laughing Through Tears: Films of the 1930s" |
| American History Illustrated (March 1983) 10-21 |
| "Pullmans in the Sky: Commercial Aviation before World War II" |
| American History Illustrated (June 1984) 38-45 |
| "Feeding the Machine," in William C. Davis (ed.) |
| Touched by Fire: Volume II (Boston, 1986) 39-45 |
| "Wall Street 1887 vs. Wall Street 1987" |
| Ethikos (Summer 1987) 1:4-5, 16 |
| "A Robber Historian" |
| Forbes (October 26, 1987) 46-50 |
| Seven Articles in Keith L. Bryant (ed.) |
| Railroads in the Age of Regulation, 1900-1980 (New York, 1988) |
| "Use History: Don't Let it Use You" |
| Leaders Magazine (July 1988) |
| "The Tribune 4,047" |
| Forbes (October 24, 1988) 90-94 |
| "Finding Rear Doors to Center Stage: The Role of Business and Corporate History" |
| Business History Bulletin (Winter 1990), vol. 4, no. 1, 1-3 |
| "The First Tycoon" |
| Forbes (October 22, 1990), 44-52 |
| "The Diesel Revolution" |
| American Heritage of Invention & Technology (Winter 1991) 6:3, 16-22 |
| "A Hell of a Way to Run a Railroad" |
| Audacity (Fall 1992), 1:1, 22-31 |
| "What Hath God Wrought?" |
| American Heritage of Invention & Technology (Spring 1993) 8:4, 34-42 |
| "John D. Rockefeller Slept Here" |
| Forbes 400 (Oct. 1993) 68-73 |
| "The Coming of the Railroad and the End of the Great West" |
| American Heritage of Invention & Technology (Winter 1995) 8-17 |
| "The Robber Barons’ Bum Rap" |
| City Journal (Winter 1995) 90-100 |
| "The Millionaire Capital of America" |
| City Journal (Summer 1995) 108-117 |
| "The Gospel of Wanamaker" |
| Audacity (Summer 1996) 26-39 |
| "When New York Became the U.S. Media Capital" |
| City Journal (Summer 1996) 97-112 |
