An examination of foreign capital's role in the American Civil War.

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Nineteenth-century globalization made America exceptional. On the back of European money and immigration, America became an empire with considerable skill at co

A concise new history of the United States revealing that crises -- not unlike those of the present day -- have determined our nation's course from the start In

How does one package and sell confidence in the stability of a nation riven by civil strife? This was the question that loomed before the Philadelphia financial