Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Hagley Museum and Library Announces First Podcast



CONTACT: Meg Marcozzi, Marketing Manager
                         (302) 658-2400, ext. 238    mmarcozzi@hagley.org

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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