Richard C Overton

Biographic Data

ID1047678
NAMERichard C Overton
GIVEN NAMESRichard C
FAMILY NAMEOverton
SIGNATUREOVERTON R C
AFFILIATIONSWestern University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS27
TOTAL CITATIONS1
WORKS AS AUTHOR27
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1939
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1998
H-INDEX1

  • A remonstrance of many thousand citizens . 7 July 1646

    Open AccessRichard C Overton, Richard Overton et al.CHAPTEREnglish Levellers1998

    A remonstrance of many thousand citizens and other freeborn people of England to their own House of Commons

  • The Impossible Railway

    Richard C Overton, Pierre BertonARTICLEJournal of American History1973Cited by: 1

  • Arthur E. Stilwell

    Richard C Overton, Keith L BryantARTICLEJournal of American History1973

    Journal Article Arthur E. Stilwell: Promoter with a Hunch. By Keith L. Bryant, Jr. (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1971. xv + 256 pp. Maps, illustrations, table, notes, note on sources, and index. $10.00.) Get access Richard C. Overton Richard C. Overton University of Western Ontario Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 59, Issue 4, March 1973, Pages 1021–1022, https…

  • Union Pacific Country

    Richard C Overton, Robert G AthearnARTICLEJournal of American History1972

    Journal Article Union Pacific Country. By Robert G. Athearn. (Chicago: Rand McNally, 1971. 480 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes and references, bibliography, notes on sources, and index. $15.00.) Get access Richard C. Overton Richard C. Overton University of Western Ontario Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 58, Issue 4, March 1972, Pages 1029–1030, https://doi.org/10.2307/19…

  • A Productive Monopoly

    Richard C Overton, William Leonhard TaylorARTICLEJournal of American History1971

  • The Hiawatha Story by Jim Scribbins (review)

    Richard C OvertonARTICLETechnology and Culture1971

    354 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE he might have utilized his model to formulate a European pattern de­ scribing the development of entrepreneurial attitudes based on the ex­ perience of the Russian Old Believers. Thus, although Gerschenkron’s model does not lend itself, in its present form, to a comprehensive explanation integrating social, politi­ cal, and economic developments in the modernization of Europe as a whole, historians cannot f…

  • The Hiawatha Story

    Richard C Overton, Jim ScribbinsARTICLETechnology and Culture1971

  • The Great Persuader

    Richard C Overton, David LavenderARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly1971

    The Great Persuader The Great Persuader. By Lavender David. (Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1970. ix, 444 p. Illustrations, photographs, maps, notes, index. $7.95.) Richard C. Overton Richard C. Overton The University of Western Ontario Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 2, Issue 4, October 1971, Pages 416–417, https://doi.org/10.2307/967931 Published: 01 October 1971

  • Burlington Route

    L L Waters, Les Waters et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1966

    Journal Article Burlington Route: A History of the Burlington Lines. By Richard C. Overton. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965. xxviii + 623 + xl pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $10.00.) Get access L. L. Waters L. L. Waters Indiana University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 53, Issue 1, June 1966, Pages 144–145, https://doi.org/10.2307/1893963 Publ…

  • Burlington Route

    John F Stover, John Stover et al.ARTICLEThe American Historical Review1966

  • Transportation

    Open AccessRichard C OvertonARTICLEThe Business History Review1965

    The role of the historian dealing with transportation is a curious one in that it has rarely, if ever, been defined. Part of the difficulty, perhaps, is inherent in the subject itself and in mankind's (not too broad a term) conception of it

  • Origins of the TVA

    Open AccessRichard C OvertonARTICLECanadian Historical Review1962

    Find information about UTP Journals. University of Toronto Press is Canada’s leading academic publisher and one of the largest university presses in North America, with particular strengths in the social sciences, humanities, and business. The Book Publishing Division is widely recognized in Canada for its strength in history, political science, sociology, Indigenous studies, and cultural studies. Internationally, UTP is a leading publisher of me…

  • Law and Locomotives

    Richard C Overton, Robert S HuntARTICLEThe Economic History Review1960

  • Jay Gould

    Richard C Overton, Julius GrodinskyARTICLEThe Mississippi Valley Historical…1958

    Journal Article Jay Gould: His Business Career, 1867–1892. By Julius Grodinsky. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1957. 627 pp. Illustration, maps, notes, tables, bibliographical note, and index. $10.00.) Get access Richard C. Overton Richard C. Overton Bureau of Railway Economics Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 44, Issue 4, March 1958, Pages 747–749, http…

  • Charles Elliott Perkins

    Open AccessRichard C OvertonARTICLEThe Business History Review1957References: 9

    Conventional for the time in his basic economic thinking, Charles Elliott Perkins was nevertheless enough of an intellectual to discern flaws in the philosophies of natural law and free competition. Creative, literate, retiring, dedicated to enlightenment but realistic about the limitations of public education, Perkins was anything but the conventional business figure of his generation. The personal background here set forth brings into sharp foc…

  • Merchants, Farmers, and Railroads

    Richard C Overton, Lee BensonARTICLEThe Mississippi Valley Historical…1956

    Journal Article Merchants, Farmers, and Railroads: Railroad Regulation and New York Politics, 1850–1887. By Lee Benson. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1955. xvi + 310 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $5.50.) Get access Richard C. Overton Richard C. Overton Bureau of Railway Economics Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 42, Issue 4, March 1956, Pages 760–762, https…

  • Can the Records Manager Help the Business Historian

    Open AccessRichard C OvertonARTICLEThe Business History Review1955

    Business history and business inevitably share the problem of dealing with records in bulk. Here is a suggestion that historians borrow and adapt certain techniques that have proved effective in solving the problem for business

  • Gulf to Rockies

    Robert E Riegel, Richard C OvertonARTICLEThe Mississippi Valley Historical…1954

    Journal Article Gulf to Rockies: The Heritage of the Fort Worth and Denver-Colorado and Southern Railways, 1861–1898. By Richard C. Overton. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1953. xiv + 410 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, and index. $5.00.) Get access Robert E. Riegel Robert E. Riegel Dartmouth College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 41, Issue 1, June 1954, Pages 146…

  • Gulf to Rockies

    Thomas C Cochran, Richard C OvertonARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1954

  • Main Line of Mid-America; The Story of the Illinois Central

    Richard C Overton, Carlton J Corliss et al.ARTICLEThe Mississippi Valley Historical…1951

    Journal Article Main Line of Mid-America; The Story of the Illinois Central. By Carlton J. Corliss. Foreword by Wayne A. Johnston. (New York: Creative Age Press, 1950. xviii + 490 pp. End maps, illustrations, bibliography, and index. $4.75.) Get access Richard C. Overton Richard C. Overton Northwestern University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 38, Issue 3, December 1951…

  • Guide to the Burlington Archives in the Newberry Library, 1851-1901

    Richard C Overton, Elisabeth Coleman Jackson et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1950

  • Problems of Writing the History of Large Business Units with Special Reference to Railroads

    Richard C OvertonARTICLEThe Business History Review1948

    The distinctive and by far the most difficult of all the “Problems in Writing the History of Large Business Units” centers around the word “large,” because the mere size of the project complicates each step of the historian's program. Let me be specific

  • "Comments on "The Railroad Land Grant Legend in American History Texts

    David Maldwyn Ellis, David Ellis et al.ARTICLEThe Mississippi Valley Historical…1946

    Comments on "The Railroad Land Grant Legend in American History Texts" Get access David Maldwyn Ellis, David Maldwyn Ellis Utica, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Richard C. Overton, Richard C. Overton Northwestern University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Robert E. Riegel, Robert E. Riegel Dartmouth College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford …

  • Free Men of America

    Richard C Overton, Ezequiel PadillaARTICLEThe Mississippi Valley Historical…1945

    Journal Article Free Men of America. By Ezequiel Padilla. (New York: Ziff-Davis Publishing Co., 1943. v + 173 pp. $2.50.) Get access Richard C. Overton Richard C. Overton Northwestern University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 32, Issue 2, September 1945, Pages 268–269, https://doi.org/10.2307/1898223 Published: 01 September 1945

  • Scholars Get Access to Burlington Records

    Richard C OvertonARTICLEThe Business History Review1944References: 1

    In July, 1936, the Burlington inaugurated a policy of making its historical records available to qualified scholars by depositing, in the Baker Library at the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, all the records that could be found (some six tons in bulk) pertaining to the sale and colonization of its land grants in Iowa and Nebraska; a few years later similar material for the Hannibal & St. Joseph was added to this collection, the…