Talk: Anti-Monopoly and the Constitution - The Apostacy of George Mason

Talk: Anti-Monopoly and the Constitution

Thursday, September 25, 2025 5:30 PM EDT
Fenwick Library, 2001

The Society of the Cincinnati of the State of Virginia, the George Mason University Department of History and Art History and the Center for Mason Legacies jointly present a lecture by Richard R. John of Columbia University. A historian specializing in the history of business, technology, communications, and American political development, Professor John teaches and advises graduate students in Columbia’s Ph.D. program in communications and is member of the core faculty of the Columbia history department, where he offers courses on the history of capitalism and the history of communications. His publications include essays, eight edited books, and the monographs Spreading the News: The American Postal System from Franklin to Morse and Network Nation: Inventing American Telecommunications.

Reception to follow. 

Open to the public; registration not required.