Economic History

  • AHA Member Spotlight: Gladys McCormick

    Matthew Keough | Sep 13, 2019

    Gladys McCormick is an associate professor in history and the Jay and Debe Moskowitz Endowed Chair in Mexico-US Relations at...
  • Rewarding Risk

    Kathleen Day | Apr 3, 2019

    Deposit insurance was meant to stop bank runs. But by generating unwarranted confidence in the banking system, it creates danger.
  • Antonio Calabria (1941–2018)

    John Jeffries Martin | Jan 11, 2019

    Professor Antonio Calabria died at his home in San Antonio, Texas, in early October 2018.
  • Misdirected Rage

    Matthew Bowser | Aug 9, 2018

    Economic stress and political upheaval have been historically responsible for Islamophobia in Myanmar.
  • Rules of Trade

    Dane Kennedy | Jul 20, 2018

    President Trump calls international trade rules “unfair” to the United States. Do historians agree?
  • Fishing for Loan Sharks

    Anne Fleming | Jul 12, 2018

    Policymakers have been trying to reel in loan sharks for over a century.
  • Familial Intrigue: A Historian's Attic Reveals Secrets from the Past

    Jill Wharton | Feb 16, 2018

    Alice Echols’s discovery that her grandfather played a leading role in one of the biggest banking sc...
  • Global Speculation

    Alex Lichtenstein | Dec 1, 2017

    As Jonathan Levy (Univ. of Chicago) observes in his “Comment” in December’s AHR Forum (“Follow the M...
  • Welfare Reform and the Politics of Race

    Premilla Nadasen | Aug 22, 2016

    Premilla Nadasen on how the racialized rhetoric of work over dependency reflected in the '96 welfare reform act continues to have an impact today.
  • Searching for the Quotidian in the Archives

    Jesse Hysell | Aug 17, 2016

    Jesse Hysell considers the nature of daily interactions between Muslim and Christian merchants during the early modern Mediterranean.

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