Spring Issue Now Available

Check out the latest issue of Financial History, now available for FREE as a full-color digital edition! Highlights include:

Industrial Slavery

Lincolnomics

A New History of Financial Bubbles

Irving Kahn: Value Investor for the Ages

Morgan and Schiff: America's Indispensable Bankers

An Early Effort to Corral the Colorado

Wild West Finance: Buffalo Bill Cody (Part 2)

Where Are They Now? Baker, Weeks & Co.

Book Review: "The Day the Markets Roared"

MoAF/Fordham/CFA Society Webinar

Join us for a presentation by Paul Schmelzing on his groundbreaking new research on historical interest rates, and what they could mean for today's economy, followed by a conversation with award-winning author and financial journalist James Grant and renowned economic historian Dr. Richard Sylla.

This program is FREE, but advance registration is required. Registered guests will receive the Zoom link prior to the program. Register today.

MoAF/Fordham Webinar Series

Join us for a lunchtime event with acclaimed historian, commentator and former financial executive Zachary Karabell, as he offers the first full and frank look inside Brown Brothers Harriman against the backdrop of American history.

This program is FREE, but advance registration is required. Registered guests will receive the Zoom link prior to the program. Register today.

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In this program, Wall Street legend Peter Cohen is interviewed by CNBC Senior Markets Correspondent Bob Pisani.

Peter’s 50-year career spans monumental changes in the landscape of the American capital markets. From leading a storied Wall Street firm during the historic buyout war over RJR Nabisco, which was documented in the book and movie Barbarians at the Gate, to having a ring-side seat to a dozen crises, panics and crashes, Peter brings perspective and insight to today’s markets. He has a passion for financial history and sees a need for Wall Street professionals to know their past to be better prepared for their future.

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In this presentation, John Wasik, author of Lincolnomics: How President Lincoln Constructed the Great American Economy, shows a vastly under-studied side of Lincoln. As the only President to hold a patent, he was an innovator. During his brief time as a surveyor, he was an urban planner. Surprisingly, his longest and most comprehensive speeches were devoted to the culture of invention, “internal improvements” and research and development.

Watch event video on C-SPAN.