Faculty

Richard R. John, Professor, Department of History, Adjunct Faculty

Has interests in U.S. cultural and institutional history before 1940, American political development, and the history of business, technology, and communication. His book Spreading the News: The American Postal System from Franklin to Morse (Harvard University Press) won the Allan Nevins Prize of the Society of American Historians. His latest book project is Making Connections: The Advent of American Telecommunications (under contract with Harvard University Press).

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• Ph.D., History; Harvard University
• Email: rjohn [at] uic [dot] edu
• Phone: 312.996.6377

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