304 research outputs found
Street scene--Harpers Ferry and Vicinity
No full textNo. 765.Copyright by W.H. Tipton & Co.On recto: Scenery of the Baltimore & Ohio R.R
Gen. Lee's headquarters
No full textRobert E. Lee's headquarters, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.Photographed and published by W.H. Tipton & Co.Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).No. 573
Tipton County officials, Covington, Tennessee
No full textUndated image of Tipton County officials outside the courthouse in Covington, Tennessee. Charles P. Simonton is fourth from the right in the back row. Individuals identified include: Front row: Jack Mann, George R. Ellis, Jr., Esquire Kimbrough, Dr. Crigger, Ab Kelley, W.B. Overall, J.D. Hall, J.C. Walker, Charles A. Matthews, Josh J. Miller. Back row: John Y. Peete, J.D. Beaver, John Tipton, Eugene Younger, and W.H. Richardson. Photographer: McDaniel, Covington, Tennessee.https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-mss-cpsimontonfamily2/1011/thumbnail.jp
Battle-field Observatory, East Cemetery Hill, Gettysburg
No full textStereo copyrighted by W.H. Tipton & Co., Gettysburg, Pa.No. 717.This record contains unverified, old data from caption card
Meadow over which the 2d Mass. and 27th Indiana charged on morning of July 3d--Woods occupied by Confederates, Johnson's Div., Ewell's Corps
No full textStereo gems of Gettysburg scenery.No. 515
Capitalist good guys: bankers, businessmen and the US political system
No full textAmerica’s major corporations spend money in record amounts to secure influence, but the influence they seek benefits only themselves. Was it ever thus? No, according to a new book by Mark Mizruchi, who argues that between the turn of the 20th century and the 1970s, significant members of the US business elite advocated surprisingly moderate policies. Is he right? If so, what changed? Ben Tipton also read Susie Pak’s new history of elite bankers and found much of contemporary relevance.
Read his article in the Australian Review of Public Affairs.
Title: The Fracturing of the American Corporate Elite
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Date Published: 2013
Author/s: Mark Mizruchi
Title: Gentlemen Bankers: The World of J.P. Morgan
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Date Published: 2013
Author/s: Susie J. Pak
 
Disruptive technologies, strategic plans and the art of comparative history
No full textIn January 1961, Dwight Eisenhower’s final televised speech as President of the United States warned of the need to guard against the unwarranted influence of what he called the ‘military industrial complex’. He believed that the dangerous relationships among industrial firms, government agencies and irresponsible technocratic elites were new, a consequence of the Cold War, and most observers since have agreed. Research based on previously sealed archives finds these relationships started much earlier ...
So how does the fascinating story of the torpedo broaden out from the history of science and technology to intersect with legal, business, military and, finally, diplomatic history? Ben Tipton discusses Katherine C. Epstein’s book Torpedo: Inventing the Military-Industrial Complex in the United States and Great Britain.
Read this book review in the Australian Review of Public Affairs.
Title: Torpedo: Inventing the Military-Industrial Complex in the United States and Great Britain
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Date Published: 2014
Author: Katherine C. Epstein
Image: book cove
Soldiers National Cemetery. No. 743
No full textCemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, with monument; street in foreground, viewed from above
General Lee's headquarters, Gettysburg, Pa.
No full textGeneral Robert E. Lee's headquarters, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, circa 1907-1913. Caption reads: General Lee's Headquarters. Gen. Lee advanced with his army along the Chambersburg Pike and selected this picturesque little stone house, fronting on the pike as his headquarters. It stands on Seminary Ridge, midway between the Seminary Buildings and the old tapeworm Railroad cut. Postmark July 3, 1913; Postcard number: 304; Message included
‘The most feared disease of childhood and adolescence’ and ‘a deafening silence’: polio and post-polio in Australia
No full textExtremely contagious and potentially fatal, polio reaped an annual harvest from the late 19th through the middle of the 20th centuries. Polio has since been almost eradicated by programs of mass vaccination and is now forgotten. Yet the threat of polio persists in two ways. An unknown number of survivors suffer ‘post-polio syndrome’, with its crushing fatigue and further muscle weakening. Meanwhile, in rich countries, complacency, ignorance, suspicion and deliberate misinformation lead worryingly large numbers of parents to refuse to have their children vaccinated, with potentially tragic consequences. Ben Tipton was intrigued to find three recent books that feature this old disease here in Australia -- a history, a novel and an account of a broken family, all of them highly readable and rewarding. Read his very compelling article in the Australian Review of Public Affairs.
Book Title: Dancing in My Dreams: Confronting the Spectre of Polio
Publisher: Monash University Publishing
Date published: 2015
Author: Kerry Highley
Book Title: The Golden Age
Publisher: Random House/Vintage Books Australia
Date published: 2015
Author: Joan London
Book Title: Boy, Lost: A Family Memoir
Publisher: Queensland University Press
Date published: 2013
Author: Kristina Olsso
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