Spring 2005

Download Featured Article: Alexander Hamilton and the Birth of a Captial Market

By Robert E. Wright

Also in this Issue:

  • The Rise and Fall of the Glass-Steagall Act: The Demise of the Act that Defined Banking Since 1933, by Scott B. MacDonald
  • The Fight Against Counterfeiting: A brief history of Counterfeiting in the U.S., from Colonial Notes to Today's Modern Money, by Tamar Anolic
  • A Long View of the Capital Markets: Identifying the Major Differences Between Modern and Historic Markets, by William J. Bernstein.
  • Oliver Pollock: Forgotten Financier of the American Revolution, by Russell Roberts
  • A Pathway to Peace: Corn Sales to the Soviets, by Bruce Weitzman
  • Educators' Perspective: The Flu Pandemic, the Flow of Information and the Financial Markets of 1918, by Brian Grinder and Dan Cooper
  • Book Review: An Empire of Wealth, by John Steele Gordon

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...

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