EH.N: ANN: New York Times multimedia approach to business history

[Margaret Levenstein]

The New York Times columnist, Floyd Norris has created an on-line 
feature that may be of interest to readers of H-Business - especially 
as you look for something new and multimedia to spice up your 
syllabus. The feature is called "This Month in Business History." 
Each one of these has a video narrated by Norris and a list of 
related links (slide shows, newspaper articles, etc.) describing the 
event. You can play them all by following the links from:

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/n/floyd_norris/index.html 


This Month in Business History
March 1904: The U.S. won an antitrust case against J.P. Morgan's 
Northern Securities, a holding company that briefly created a 
railroad monopoly in the Pacific Northwest.

This Month in Business History
February 1937: A 40-day sit-down strike by General Motors' workers 
ended with the company agreeing to pay higher wages and union 
recognition.

This Month in Business History
January 1934: Under the Gold Reserve Act no one in the United States 
was allowed to own gold without the permission of the government.

This Month in Business History
December 1988: The private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and 
Company paid $25 billion for RJR Nabisco, still the highest amount 
ever paid in a leveraged buyout.

This Month in Business History
November 1913: The 16th Amendment of the United States Constitution 
enabled the income tax in 1913, and since then it has taken on 
greater complexity.

This Month in Business History
October 1979: Floyd Norris tells the story of a sudden announcement 
by Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker and the recession that 
followed.

This Month in Business History
September 1960: The Birth of OPEC

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Margaret Levenstein
Executive Director, Michigan Census Research Data Center Associate 
Research Scientist, Survey Research Center 3260 Institute for Social 
Research University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1248 
MaggieL at umich.edu
(734)615-9088