Session Chairs:

Jennifer Wilgus, Middle Tennessee State University

Papers:

"Disposal of the Land Grant to the Illinois Central Railroad: County-Level Analysis, 1854-1904"
Harold R. Christensen, Centenary College of Louisiana (Contact Author)

"Market Structure and Monopoly Power in the Western States: Evidence From 1890 to 1910"
Brandon Dupont, Wellesley College (Contact Author)
Kyongwook Choi, Ohio University

"Technological Diffusion and Profitability of Blockade Running During the Civil War: The Lebergott Paradox Undone"
Bruce Hetherington, Oglethorpe University
Peter J. Kower, Oglethorpe University (Contact Author)

"The Tenements of New York and the Houses of Philadelphia, 1850-1930: Did Lot-Size Policy Matter?"
Michael R. Montgomery, University of Maine (Contact Author)

Discussants:

J. Rody Borg, Jacksonville University
Linda M. Hooks, Washington and Lee University