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House six will get you bled to death. (Yes, this is a Benjamin Rush insult).

This is incredibly shameful. I have lost all respect for Theda Skocpol, the influential scholar who runs the Scholars Strategy Network. The number of leading academics who claim to be for justice but are incredibly anti-union is very high. Disgusting. We need to do something.

I promise that this will be the most exciting money history roundtable you've ever been to (and not just because my fav. coin is on the poster.)

The opening plenary of the Early American Money symposium @WatsonInstitute Brown History Dept. is now available for viewing. Amazing stuff from Jeff Sklansky, Jane Knodell, Christine Desan, and Ann Daly. Please watch and share with your friends and colleagues! youtu.be/Em8VgKYNDyE

I found a tart recipe that takes five hours to make. I plan to spend tomorrow evening totally immersed in baking it. Depending on how things go, there's a good chance that I follow it up by stress eating the whole thing out of the tin.

America hasn’t been so fixated on incremental developments in Georgia since General Sherman’s march to Savannah.

Cant wait to read this!

Yes.

Join us for our inaugural (online) event with Dr. Utsa Patnaik! Imperialism, Gold Standard and the Colonized. Sep 10, 12PM EST. Register below. event.newschool.edu/utsapatnaik

New paper w/Sofia Valeonti up at SSRN! "The Money War: An Interpretation of Democracy, Depreciation, and Taxes in the U.S. Civil War" papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… Why did Confederate money fail while the Union's succeeded? It wasn't about gold stocks, as this 1864 cartoon implies.

The book so nice I accidentally pre-ordered it twice! Hannah Farber