Spring 2016

Download Featured Article: Dear Chairman: Boardroom Battles and the Rise of Shareholder Activism

By Jeff Gramm

Also in this Issue:

  • First Entrepreneur: George Washington, by Edward G. Lengel
  • Doing Well by Doing Good: Catastrophe Bonds, by Gregory DL Morris
  • Municipal Insolvency in the 1930s, by Frederick J. Sheehan Jr.
  • America's First Black Friday: The Gold Panic of 1869, by Donald P. Morgan and James Narron
  • A Self-Made Man on Wall Street: Elias Cornelius Benedict, by Whitney McKendree Moore
  • Wall Street Women Celebrate Milestone: 60 Years of the FWA, by Kimberly Weinrick and Ria Davis

Winter 2026

Financial History, Issue 156

In this issue:

  • "Cracked Foundations: Redlining in the Suburbs," by Michael R. Glass
  • "Thomas Willing: The Banker Who Made America," by Richard Vague
  • "The Rise and Fall of the Conglomerates," by Martin Fridson

and more...