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My focus is early American history, particularly the period of the Early Republic (loosely, the 1780s–1850s), but my teaching spans the colonial period through the Civil War. My teaching and research interests revolve around the organization of work, business, and the economy, including entrepreneurship and small business; free and enslaved labor; household production and gender work roles; technological change; comparative industrialization; the relationship between legal institutions and social and economic developments; and commerce and capitalism.
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Nancy Malony Coots, Passmore Williamson, and the "Singular Case" of "a Colored Woman's Will"
Rilling, D. J., Oct 2025, In: Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. 149, 3, p. 293-324 32 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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AN AFRICAN AMERICAN BURIAL GROUND IN PHILADELPHIA “DISCOVERED,” PROTECTED, ERADICATED
Rilling, D. J., Mar 2024, In: Pennsylvania History. 91, 3, p. 247-269 23 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Introduction
Black, B. C. & Rilling, D. J., Oct 2015, In: Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. 139, 3, p. 247-248 2 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate
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Locating Philadelphia’s water-powered past
Rilling, D. J., Oct 2015, In: Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. 139, 3, p. 356-359 4 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Review Essay: Reinforcing Material History
Rilling, D. J., Jul 2009, In: Journal of Urban History. 35, 5, p. 768-776 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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