A Vision and a Promise: Villa Julie College
Adrian Kinnane with Stephen Swisdak

A Vision and a Promise traces the remarkable growth of the college from its founding in 1947 by the Sisters of Notre-Dame de Namur as a medical-secretarial school with an initial enrollment of 7 students to a highly regarded regional institution of nearly 3,000 undergraduate students, 27 undergraduate majors, and a school of graduate and professional studies. The narrative chronicles the college evolving in the decades after World War II as did the United States, growing in size, scope, and diversity. Abundantly illustrated, the book depicts a college providing a practical liberal arts-based education while also responding to the evolving needs of the local business community. A Vision and a Promise lays out a promise for a brighter future as Villa Julie is poised to expand even more in next 60 years.

Philadelphia University: A Rich History, 1884 to 2007

It was America's 100th birthday when teacher-turned-textile-executive Theodore Search had an idea: why not start a textile school—one that would provide a broad executive education yet maintain a tight focus on the needs of the burgeoning textile industry? Search started his school in 1884 and, over the next half-century, committed teachers and enterprising students raised the Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science to a preeminent position serving one of America's greatest industries. By the mid-twentieth century, however, a few began to see that if it was to retain this position in a rapidly changing economy, the school would have to change. Through a steady program of building and curriculum diversification—a program relentlessly questioned along the way—the textile school was slowly transformed. In compelling imagery and a fast-paced narrative based on original historical documents and a pre-existing manuscript, author Kenneth Durr tells the story of this transformation that led in 1999 to the adoption of the name "Philadelphia University." In America's third century, Search's idea lives on in a school still dedicated to providing ambitious and enterprising students an education that is both broadening but also relevant to the challenges of today's economy. Available from Philadelphia University.

International Harvester, McCormick, Navistar: Milestones in the Company that Helped Build America
Kenneth Durr, Lee Sullivan, and Craig Cutler
Introduction by Hugh Downs

This lavishly illustrated history tells the story of the quintessentially American company founded by Cyrus McCormick. It roots McCormick's perfection of the reaper in the efflorescence of invention and innovation set off by the nation's founding and traces its growth through the agricultural expansion of the nineteenth century and into the age of the modern industrial enterprise. In text and images drawn from the International Harvester archives at the Wisconsin Historical Society, Kenneth Durr and Lee Sullivan chronicle McCormick's rise in the nineteenth century and International Harvester's dominance in agriculture and transportation in the early twentieth. In the late twentieth century the company was transformed along with the American industrial economy. And as Navistar it remains on the cutting edge of the transportation equipment industry. To order, click here.

The Sound of Freedom: Naval Weapons Technology at Dahlgren, Virginia, 1918-2006
James P. Rife and Rodney P. Carlisle

The Sound of Freedom tells the story of the evolution of the Dahlgren Laboratory from a naval proof and test facility into a modern research and development center crucial to the technological evolution of the U.S. Navy. HAI historians James P. Rife and Rodney P. Carlisle have situated Dahlgren within the context of world events and the constantly shifting defense research, development, test, and evaluation organization and policy. Their detailed and meticulously documented account also highlights the efforts of the naval officers, civilian scientists and technicians, and blue-collar workers who have made the weapons of the U.S. Navy second to none. A sign posted at the main gate once read, "Don't mind our noise, it's the sound of freedom!" The slogan still resonates in our time. Published by the U.S. Government Printing Office.

A Company With a Mission: Rodman Rockefeller and the International Basic Economy Corporation, 1947-1985
Kenneth D. Durr

The International Basic Economy Corporation (IBEC) was a remarkable experiment founded on the idea that profitable enterprise was the best way to fulfill the basic need for food, clothing, and shelter in developing nations. Beginning in Latin America, founder Nelson Rockefeller joined with local partners to fulfill the IBEC mission and extended the company's reach into Europe and the United States. In the 1960s Rodman Rockefeller took up the mission, building IBEC to encompass 140 subsidiaries in thirty-three countries, and became an ardent spokesman for "corporate social responsibility." Kenneth D. Durr's comprehensive history draws from newly opened corporate and family records along with interviews with former officials to demonstrate that IBEC's experiment did define the limits within which every subsequent "company with a mission" would have to work.

Families First: A History of Fairfax Memorial Park, 1957-2007
Garry E. Adelman

When Cornelius H. Doherty accompanied his father to a rural tract of land outside Washington, DC, in 1956, he could not have known the importance of the land before him—he would work or live there for more than fifty years. He also could not have known that he, along with his parents, grandparents, uncles, and sisters, would be buried and rest there forever. From that visit so long ago emerged Calvary Memorial Park. It began under family leadership as a Catholic cemetery. Today, the cemetery is non-sectarian but it is still owned and operated by the Doherty family under the name Fairfax Memorial Park. The Doherty family faced challenges to be sure. Through financial hard times, a changing Catholic Church, dynamic local politics, intense competition, personal family loss, and markets where family-owned cemeteries quickly disappeared, the Dohertys always stuck to the core principle of the institution—the needs of families come first. Staff would treat families who came to the cemetery as their own. This key principle carried on to the funeral home opened by the Dohertys in 2003 adjacent to the cemetery. Families First tells the fascinating story of how a small, Catholic cemetery has emerged fifty years later as Northern Virginia's premier cemetery and funeral home facility.

Behind the Buoy: A History of BoatU.S.
Adrian Kinnane

While aboard a friend's boat in the early 1960s, Washington, D.C., attorney Richard Schwartz started asking questions. A man of omnivorous curiosity, Schwartz was surprised by what his friend's answers revealed: there was no organization representing the interests of boat owners in the United States. Despite the rapid rise in recreational activities such as camping, skiing, fishing, and boating in the postwar era, the boating industry conducted business as if its constituency was comprised of only a handful of well-to-do yachters. In 1966 Schwartz founded BoatU.S.—Boat Owners Association of the United States—to change all that. Along with a catalogue of discounted products, Schwartz provided vigorous advocacy in Congress that led to improved safety and consumer regulation, as well as a sharper focus on fuel taxes, licensing, tow and rescue activities, boater education, and boating-related environmental concerns. By 2006 BoatU.S. provided a wide range of services to more than 630,000 members in every state. BoatU.S. also established one of the nation's major marine insurance businesses and, through the BoatU.S. Foundation for Boating Safety, became a principal voice for safety and environmental responsibility. Behind the Buoy: A History of BoatU.S. tells how Richard Schwartz and many others built an afternoon's idea into forty years of effective advocacy for boaters.

Durable Legacy: A History of Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell
Adrian Kinnane

On June 30, 1930, U.S. District Court Judge Hugh M. Morris thanked the court's employees for their help during his eleven years on the bench and gaveled the day's session to an end. The next day the newly resigned judge opened his law practice just one block away from the courthouse in downtown Wilmington, Delaware. Over the next seventy-five years the practice evolved into one of the premier law firms in the state and, by virtue of Delaware's long experience with corporation law, one of the most sought-after firms in the nation. Since 1930 Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell has been at the forefront of new developments in patent, bankruptcy, mergers and acquisitions, and tax and estate law, as well as in government relations work. The firm played a key role in modernizing Delaware's General Corporation Law in the 1960s, a law so well crafted that it serves as a virtual substitute for a national corporation law. In the 1980s MNAT attorneys transformed Delaware from an industrial state dominated by chemical giants such as DuPont and Hercules to a service economy centered on banking and credit cards, a change that reverberated across the country. The 1990s saw MNAT lawyers on the cutting edge of intellectual property issues generated by high tech and biotech science. Durable Legacy: A History of Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell (2005) reveals the human drama and enterprise involved in constructing a successful law firm with an international reputation without losing its special grounding in the history and dynamics of America's "first state." See a pdf version of the book at the website of Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell.

The Heart of It All: A History of Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.
Adrian Kinnane

Starting in 1904 as the law practice of former War Department secretary and new Georgetown Law Center graduate Francis J. "Frank" Hogan, Hogan & Hartson L.L.P. evolved in step with history at the heart of the nation's capital. Through the First World War, the Depression, World War II, the Cold War, and an unprecedented expansion in the regulatory scope of the federal government; through the civil rights, antiwar, environmental, consumer, and women's movements; through a whirlwind of innovation in communications, energy, transportation, and medical technologies; and through dramatic changes in the organization and practice of law itself, Hogan & Hartson emerged into its second century as one of the nation's largest and most renowned law firms, with a thriving global practice in more than twenty offices worldwide. Based on interviews with many current and former Hogan & Hartson partners, and drawing from a wide array of archival and library resources, this richly illustrated book highlights the crucial human elements that were "at the heart of" Hogan & Hartson's remarkable success. Additionally, numerous sidebars inform the reader of developments important to the broader historical context.

Jack Kent Cooke: A Career Biography
Adrian Kinnane

When he was thirteen years old, Jack Kent Cooke overheard his father and some salesmen friends chatting about their profits in the Cooke's Toronto living room. Cooke burst in to announce, "Wait until I'm your age! I'll be a millionaire!" When that time finally came, Cooke already had been a millionaire for several years. He earned his fortune in tough times, first managing radio stations and then parlaying that experience into sole ownership of a Toronto station. After coming to the United States in 1960, he entered the fledgling cable TV business. Cooke's unerring sense of popular taste, combined with his uncompromising management style, powered a long lifetime of achievement, and although his fortune was based in communications, he was best known for his winning sports franchises, the Los Angeles Lakers and the Washington Redskins. Cooke died in 1997, leaving as his legacy a foundation that would help other highly driven and talented young people to reach their full potential through education. This book, commissioned by the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, focuses on Cooke’s astonishing business career. Notoriously tough and demanding, Cooke also was eminently fair. In an era of corporate misdeeds, Jack Kent Cooke: A Career Biography is a reminder that hard-driving ambition and integrity in business can—and should—go hand in hand.

Bausch & Lomb: Perfecting Vision, Enhancing Life for 150 Years

In 1853 a German immigrant named J. J. Bausch opened a small shop in Rochester, New York. Still struggling to survive three years later, Bausch turned to his friend, Henry Lomb, for a loan of sixty dollars to keep the business going. With a handshake to seal the deal, the two men became partners, and the company they founded is today one of the best known healthcare brands in the world. In a book that blends narrative and imagery, author Lee Sullivan tells the story of the company's growth, struggles, accomplishments, and innovations—from affordable, mass-produced microscopes and the first large-scale American optical glass plant, through the CinemaScope motion picture lens and the introduction of gas-permeable contact lenses, to the development of pharmaceuticals and surgical instruments for improving eye health. Bausch & Lomb, 2004. To order, contact Investor Relations, Bausch & Lomb Incorporated, One Bausch & Lomb Place, Rochester, NY 14604.

One Union: The History of the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades, 1887-2003
Foreword by James A. Williams, Introduction by Edward M. Kennedy

Founded only a year after the American Federation of Labor, yet one of the most effective organizers and politically active in the "new" movement of the 1990s, the story of the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades mirrors the ups and downs of a century of American labor. Written by labor historian Kenneth Durr, it looks closely at working-class culture, tracks the waxing and waning of labor political action, and evaluates changing union leadership, all within the context of the ever-changing building and construction trades. It is must reading, not only for those interested in how the labor movement weathered a turbulent twentieth century but also for those committed to its relevance in the twenty-first. "One Union talks of an inspiring history," writes Senator Kennedy, "but it is also a new call to action, in the best IUPAT tradition." Aspatore Books, 2004.

The University of Maryland, College Park: Then & Now
Garry E. Adelman

Since the Maryland Agricultural College was chartered in 1856, the campus at College Park has changed dramatically, and yet much has stayed the same. By presenting dozens of old photographs from the collections of the University of Maryland Archives and comparing them with views recorded in 2002 from the same location, this book allows the reader to travel through time and compare the changing College Park campus with that of today. The University of Maryland, College Park: Then & Now includes a brief history of the institution, a map of the old and modern campuses, and a "challenge" for the reader to locate a campus view from 1916. Montrose Press, 2003.

Powder and Propellants: Energetic Materials at Indian Head, Maryland, 1890-2001
Rodney P. Carlisle

NEW EDITION

Written to tell the history of ordnance evolution over the course of a century, this book focuses on the Naval Ordnance Station at Indian Head, Maryland, and its research in the arts and sciences surrounding the propelling, by chemical charge, of steel shell and explosive warhead against steel armor. Through the story of powder and propellants, Carlisle explores the effects upon ordnance of larger transformations in technology, warfare, and naval organization. Originally published by the US Navy in 1990, the second edition includes a new chapter covering the last decade. University of North Texas Press, 2002. For more information or to order, click here.

Managing American Wildlife: A History of the International Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies
Dian Olson Belanger and Adrian Kinnane

NEW EDITION

The IAFWA, founded in 1902, has for nearly a century acted as a primary advocacy organization for professional wildlife management. This book places the history of the association within the context of the broad conservation movement, focusing especially on the debate over state versus federal jurisdiction in wildlife management. The expanded second edition includes a new chapter to update the association's history and celebrate its centennial. Montrose Press, 2002. For ordering information, please contact IAFWA at iafwa@sso.org.

DuPont: From the Banks of the Brandywine to the Miracles of Science
Adrian Kinnane

DuPont has been closely linked with America's growth for 200 years. DuPont's nineteenth century product—explosives—built the nation's railroads, tunnels, and mines; its twentieth century plastics, dyes, and synthetics served an increasingly complex "consumer" society. The company led the transition from family-owned businesses to large, professionally managed corporations early in the twentieth century, and its more recent transformation from a bureaucratic hierarchy to smaller, more flexible business units worldwide reflects broader currents in the global economy. Based on extensive research into corporate and family records, as well as interviews with current and retired executives, DuPont: From the Banks of the Brandywine to the Miracles of Science is a solid business history as well as an artfully illustrated and entertaining story. DuPont, 2002. To order, click here.

Empowering an Industry: One Hundred Years of the National Electrical Contractors Association
Kathleen J. Nawyn

It was Thomas Edison who first observed that the light bulb was worthless without skilled technicians to build and service the power grid to support it. The National Electrical Contractors Association stepped in to fill this need. From the time of its first meeting at the wondrously illuminated Pan American Exhibition in Buffalo in1901, NECA worked in advocacy of the electrical contractors who empowered the American industry. For the next century NECA grappled with labor unions, equal opportunity and affirmative action laws, and new technologies such as fiber optics. Sometimes all-too-human in its reluctance to change, the organization inevitably overcame drift to meet existing challenges and prepare for new ones. Empowering an Industry reminds us that there is much more to providing light, power, and communication than the flick of a switch. NECA, 2001. For ordering information, contact NECA at orderdesk@necanet.org.

Seeking the Greatest Good: The Public Welfare Foundation
Peggy Dillon

Established in 1947 by Charles Edward Marsh, the Washington, DC-based Public Welfare Foundation earned a reputation over half a century for taking risks in supporting start-up community-based projects with the potential to make a difference in people's lives. Seeking the Greatest Good: The Public Welfare Foundation explores the development of the foundation since the 1964 death of its founder and was published as a companion volume to Anonymous Giver: A Life of Charles E. Marsh. The book explains how the foundation grew from Marsh's private donations in support of community programs to its current worldwide emphasis on grants for disadvantaged young and elderly people, the environment, population issues, health, criminal justice, community development, and human rights. Public Welfare Foundation, 2000.

Never Stand Still: The History of Consolidated Freightways, Inc., and CNF Transportation Inc., 1929-2000
Kenneth D. Durr and Philip L. Cantelon

During the past fifty years, the trucking industry has carried more freight than any other mode of transportation. Never Stand Still is the history of one of those companies and its people. Founded in 1929 in Portland, Oregon, by Leland James, Consolidated Freightways (CF) became a leading innovator and one of the largest and most successful companies in the motor carrier industry. The company transformed itself in the face of technological and economic change, and today, as CNF Transportation Inc., it is a leader in the trucking, air freight, and logistics sectors. This study will appeal to students of transportation and also to those interested in management, finance, federal and state regulation, unions, entrepreneurism in large corporations, and the impact of deregulation on a major American industry. Montrose Press, 1999. To order this title, contact gmathews@historyassociates.com.

Where the Fleet Begins: A History of the David Taylor Research Center
Rodney P. Carlisle

This book recounts and analyzes the history of one of the US Navy's major research and development centers, with facilities in Annapolis and Carderock, Maryland. The book traces the center's history beginning in the 1890s, when Admiral George Melville fought for the establishment of an engine experiment station, through 1898, when Captain David W. Taylor built the Navy's first Experimental Model Basin at the Washington Navy Yard, to the present. Where the Fleet Begins details the center's ongoing efforts to transform engineering vision into reality, and to keep innovation flowing from cutting-edge science and technology into the modern Navy's ships and submarines. Naval Historical Center, 1999. To order, click here.

Battling for Manassas: The Fifty-Year Preservation Struggle at Manassas National Battlefield Park
Joan M. Zenzen

Few places exemplify the problems of historic preservation as urgently as Manassas. The site of this Civil War battle has been encroached upon by plans for an interstate highway, a cemetery, a shopping mall, and two theme parks. First commissioned as a report by the National Park Service, this book tells how park managers, government officials, preservationists, developers, and concerned citizens have managed to find compromises that would protect the site while accommodating changes in the surrounding community. The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998. To order, click here.

Argonne National Laboratory, 1946-96
Jack M. Holl with the assistance of Richard G. Hewlett and Ruth R. Harris

Argonne National Laboratory was a quintessential product of the Cold War, prospering and struggling, as did other national labs, as a consequence of shifting Cold War priorities. This history takes the lab from its emergence out of the Manhattan Project and the University of Chicago "Met Labs" to the present. It traces Argonne's constant concern with reactors, basic research, and its relationship with the midwestern science community and equally constant search for identity and mission as public and political priorities shifted. Awarded the 1998 Henry Adams Prize by the Society for History in the Federal Government. University of Illinois Press, 1997. To order, click here.

The Roadway Story
Philip L. Cantelon and Kenneth D. Durr

After World War II, the motor carrier industry, led by Roadway Express of Akron, Ohio, revolutionized the way Americans shipped freight as railroad transport yielded to intercity trucking. This book shows how Roadway, established in 1930, pioneered new advances in tractor-trailer equipment that helped make the company the largest and most efficient less-than-truckload carrier in the industry. The Roadway Story also examines the changes in inner-city and motor freight transport since the industry's deregulation in 1980. Montrose Press, 1996. To order this title, contact gmathews@historyassociates.com.

Supplying the Nuclear Arsenal: American Production Reactors, 1942-1992
Rodney P. Carlisle with Joan M. Zenzen

This history provides a first-time examination of the origins and development of the government reactors that produce weapons-grade plutonium and tritium. The authors show the evolution of the early reactors, the increasing risk of radioactive contamination as the reactors age, and the Department of Energy's massive but ultimately aborted search for a design for a new generation of reactors. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. To order, click here.

The History of MCI: 1968-1988, The Early Years
Philip L. Cantelon

This book reveals how, in just two decades, MCI Communications Corporation profoundly changed the telecommunications industry. It shows how MCI, which began as a small microwave telecommunications system between Chicago and St. Louis, became a global corporation known for its entrepreneurial spirit, fast response to market shifts, and pioneering development of innovative technologies, services, and marketing techniques. Heritage Press, 1993. To order this title, contact gmathews@historyassociates.com.

Jessie Ball duPont
Richard Greening Hewlett

This biography is the portrait of a genteel southern woman who, upon her 1921 marriage to Alfred I. duPont, was catapulted from the modest life of a California schoolteacher into the luxurious world of wealth. The book explores her transformation into a major philanthropist, explains the reasons behind her gift-giving, and shows how she channeled her husband's wealth into a flourishing foundation and a financial empire. University Press of Florida, 1992. To order, click here.

Dental Science in a New Age: A History of the National Institute of Dental Research
Ruth Roy Harris

This book chronicles the achievements of the National Institute of Dental Health, created in 1948 as the third institute of the National Institutes of Health. It also serves as a social and technical history of the major issues of twentieth-century dentistry, including fluoridation of public drinking water and the effectiveness of dental hygiene. Iowa State University Press, 1992. To order, click here.

Crisis Contained: The Department of Energy at Three Mile Island
Philip L. Cantelon and Robert C. Williams

This history chronicles the Department of Energy's response to the 1979 Three Mile Island nuclear accident, America's worst civilian nuclear power accident. Using unpublished archival materials, oral interviews, and scientific and government logs, the authors show how scientists and politicians responded to an event that was highly technical, occurred in the public eye, and was largely caused by human error. The Department of Energy commissioned C&W Associates, History Associates' predecessor, to research and write the book. Southern Illinois University Press, 1982. To order, click here.