David Thomson
19th century finance
Service to the BHC
Investments Committee 2025 - 2028 [Chair 2027 - 2028]
Scholarly Society Liaison Committee 2023 - 2025 [Chair 2024 - 2025]
Recent Conference Participation
| 2025 BHC meeting:
Chair, Banking and Finance in the Turn of the Century United States |
| 2024 BHC Meeting:
Presenter, "“Bonds Negotiated in the Grossest Fraud”: Fraud, Corruption, Trust, and Mississippi State Debt in the Antebellum United States"
Chair, Scaling Up in New Directions |
| 2022 BHC Meeting :
Presenter, "'Repudiation is Now Weighing Like a Mountain': U.S. State Debt and Foreign Bondholders in the 1830s-40s"
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| 2021 BHC Virtual Meeting:
Presenter, "‘He [Chase] thinks there is a fourth person in the Trinity’: Salmon Chase and the Civil War Treasury"
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