Thursday December 3 2009

US Whig poster showing unemployment in 1837.

"Uncle Sam sick with La Grippe" -
cartoon from 1837

"The Times" - cartoon from 1837

Crowd outside New York Stock Exchange, 1929

A bank run outside a branch of Northern Rock in Birmingham, United Kingdom in 2007
Introduction
10:00am
Session One
10.15am
Jessica Lepler (University of New Hampshire)
The Pressure of 1836: Interpreting Atlantic Bank Wars »![]()
Commentator:
Sven Beckert
Session Two
11.30am
Jed Shugerman (Harvard Law School)
Economic Crisis and the Rise of Judicial Elections and Judicial Review »
Commentator:
Richard Tuck
Informal Lunch
12.45pm-1.15pm
Concluding Panel
1.15pm-2.00pm
Gallery Tour
3.15pm
Bubbles, Panics and Crashes: A Century of Financial Crises 1830s-1930s
A new Exhibit at the Historical Collections of the Baker Library, Harvard Business School.
For further information please contact Emily Gauthier: gauth@fas.harvard.edu
Bubbles, Panics and Crashes: A Century of Financial Crises 1830s-1930s, a new Exhibit at the Historical Collections of the Baker Library, Harvard Business School. Website »
