Scholarly Articles


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"The Phantom Epidemic"
Georgia Review (Summer 1963) 17:2, 123-33
"The Growth Strategies of Southern Railroads, 1865-1893"
Business History Review (Winter 1967) 41:4, 358-77 (With Kozo Yamamura)
"The Strategy of Southern Railroads"
American Historical Review (April 1968) 73:4, 1052-1068
"Southern Railroad Leaders, 1865-1893: Identities and Ideologies"
Business History Review (Autumn 1968) 42:3, 288-310
"The Boys Who Stayed Behind: Northern Industrialists and the Civil War"
James I. Robertson Jr., and Richard M. McMurry (eds.), Rank and File (San Rafael, Cal., 1976), 137-56
"In Search of Jay Gould"
Business History Review (Summer 1978) 52:166-99
"Jay Gould: A Revisionist Interpretation"
Jeremy Atack, ed., Business and Economic History Second Series (1986) 15:55-68
"The Overland Route: First Impressions"
Railroad History (Autumn 1989), 16-34
"Replacement Technology: The Diesel as a Case Study"
Railroad History (Spring 1990), 109-120
"Competition and Regulation: the Railroad Model"
Business History Review (Summer 1990), 64:2, 311-325
"America's Lost Opportunity," in John Whitelegg, Staffan Hultén, and Torbjörn Flink (eds.)
High Speed Trains: Fast Tracks to the Future (North Yorkshire, Eng., 1993), 66-77
"The Continued Neglect of the Diesel Locomotive"
Railroad History (special issue, 2000), 6-15
"The Crash of 1929: A Review Article"
Business History Review (Summer 2001), 325-51
"Coming Full Circle: The Study of Big Business Since 1950"
Enterprise and Society (September 2001), 425-60