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Hagley Museum and Library Announces
First Podcast
Wilmington,
Delaware – November 2012 – Hagley Museum and Library released its first podcast
today, Friday, November 30. The podcast is a lecture by Dr. Albert J. Churella
on his recently–published book, The
Pennsylvania Railroad, Volume 1: Building an Empire, 1846-1917. The
full lecture can be streamed or downloaded as a podcast by going to http://www.hagley.org/library/center/Churella_lecture.html.
Hagley hosted Dr. Churella’s lecture on November 15, 2012, and it drew a
record crowd of 270 people. Churella,
who teaches history at Southern Polytechnic State University in Georgia, built
his talk around the claim that the Pennsylvania Railroad was the “unique
railroad of the world.” The Pennsylvania Railroad, Volume 1: Building an Empire, 1846-1917 will be part
of a multi-volume
account from the University of Pennsylvania Press.
Dr.
Albert J. Churella is associate professor in the Social and International Studies
Department at Southern Polytechnic State University in Marietta,
Georgia. His first book, From Steam to Diesel: Managerial Customs and
Organizational Capabilities in the Twentieth-Century American Locomotive
Industry (1998) was a finalist for the George W. Hilton award in railway
history. Churella is completing the first of a two-volume history of the
Pennsylvania Railroad, with extensive treatment of the business, technological,
labor, public policy, ethnic, and gender issues related to that company. He has
also published numerous other articles and book reviews, and has presented
papers at conferences in the United States and Europe.
About Hagley’s Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society
The
Center for the History of Business, Technology, and
Society organizes
public lectures, scholarly conferences, research seminars, and administers
research grants. It fosters a community of scholars that includes Hagley staff,
faculty and graduate students, museum professionals, research fellows and
associates, and visiting scholars from around the world. The Center’s efforts are designed to bring attention to
Hagley's research collections and to generate intellectual dialogue at Hagley.
Hagley
Museum and Library
Hagley Museum and Library collects, preserves,
and interprets the unfolding history of American enterprise. For more
information, call (302) 658-2400 weekdays or visit www.hagley.org.
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