EH.N: ANN: PEAES Conference: "The Panic of 1837: Getting By and Going Under in a Decade of Crisis"

[Cathy Matson]

The Library Company's Program in Early American Economy and Society


REMINDER! 2007 PEAES CONFERENCE

"The Panic of 1837: Getting By and Going Under in a Decade of Crisis"
The Library Company of Philadelphia
1314 Locust Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107
October 11-12, 2007

The year 1837 was a defining moment, when the rising tide of 
overextended credit and investment that had been washing over 
Americans suddenly ended. Few predicted the dire consequences of 
abandoning their long-cherished reliance on gold and silver as the 
foundation of all true wealth, and the dangers of advancing personal 
and national wealth with open-ended credit, bank loans, and personal 
indebtedness.

Scholars contributing papers include Scott Sandage, Jessica Lepler, 
Joshua Greenberg, Sharon Murphy, Dan Wadhwani, Sean Adams, Kenneth 
Cohen, Mary Templin, and Jeffrey Sklansky.

We invite you to view the entire conference program, including local 
arrangements and registration pages, at the conference website:

http://www.librarycompany.org/Economics/2007Conference/index.htm.

The conference papers will be posted by September 10, 2007. Please 
register electronically so that we will know you are coming, and then 
join us for a lively discussion about the authors' findings and 
arguments. This conference is free and open to everyone interested in 
this topic.

For further questions, please contact Cathy Matson, PEAES Director, 
at cmatson at udel.edu.