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ECONOMIC HISTORY ASSOCIATION ANNUAL MEETING OVERVIEW

Meet Us in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
September 5-7, 2025

MEETING THEME: Information and Communications in Economic History

The next EHA conference will take place September 5-7, 2025 at the Loews Philadelphia hotel housed in the historic Philadelphia Savings Fund Society (PSFS) building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – home of the Liberty Bell, Independence Hall, and hundreds more early American historical sites and archives. President Paul Rhode invites you to join us as we meet for the 85th meeting of the Economic History Association. The association will celebrate its 85th year of supporting research in the field of economic history. 

Information and Communications in Economic History is the theme of the 2025 meeting. The theme is inspired in part by Allan Pred’s classic work on the Urban Growth and the Circulation of Information and by the location of the meetings in Philadelphia, headquarters and key hub of the first postal system in the United States. “Spreading the news” helped encourage the creation and diffusion of new technologies, stimulated market integration and population flows, and fostered the dissemination of new social values and norms. But information flows and their control also re-enforced systems of oppression. Economic historians, moreover, are familiar with how the structure and content of information was generated in the past conditions and constrains what we can learn today. The surviving quantitative data and qualitative evidence are selected, with possible biases; and they are structured in ways reflecting past concerns and capabilities.

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