Lecture on Cold War technology policy set April 27.

3:54 p.m., April 23, 2004--Steve Usselman, associate professor in the School of History, Technology and Society at the Georgia Institute of Technology, will discuss “Antitrust and Technology Policy in Cold War America” at 12:30 p.m., Tuesday, April 27, in 203 Munroe Hall, as part of the History Workshop in Technology, Society and Culture lecture series.

The lecture is free and open to the public. Brown bag lunches are welcome.

Usselman is the author of many articles, two of which have received the Newcomen Prize for excellence in business history. His 2003 book, “Regulating Railroad Innovation: Business, Technology, and Politics in America, 1840-1920,” received the Ellis W. Hawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians (OAH). The prize is awarded annually by the OAH to the best book published in the history of political economy, politics or institutions of the United States, domestic or international, from the Civil War to the present. A second book, “IBM and the Dynamics of Innovation in American Computing,” is due soon.

The Hagley Program alumni season talk is sponsored by UD’s Department of History. For more information, call 831-2371.

Article by Jerry Rhodes

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