The University of Illinois and the Business History Conference
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign played a crucial role in the promotion of the field of business history and the eventual creation of the Business History Conference. People like Larry Neal and William Hausman were some of the pioneers who in the Illinois campus started this process. In the following interview, William Hausman (College of William and Mary) narrates how this process evolved from the early initiatives in the Urbana-Champaign campus to the creation of the Business History Conference