EH.N: ANN: U.S. Government Bond Trading Database, 1776-1835 -- Now Available on EH.NET

[Robert Whaples]

The U.S. Government Bond Trading Database, 1776-1835 is now available 
on EH.NET.

Compiled under the supervision of Robert E. Wright (Stern School of 
Business, NYU), the database contains 19 files and over a quarter 
million loan office certificate and government bond (6s, Deferred 6s, 
3s, other) transactions in 12 states over almost 6 decades.

Originally created to support _One Nation Under Debt: Hamilton, 
Jefferson, and the History of What We Owe_ (New York: McGraw-Hill, 
2008), the database should prove a valuable resource to economists, 
historians, political scientists, and other scholars interested in 
America's early economic, business, and political history.

For a description of the database and free data downloads in Excel or 
csv formats, browse: http://eh.net/databases/govtbond/.


Anyone interested in housing a database of interest to economic 
historians on EH.NET's website should contact Robert Whaples, 
EH.NET's director, at whaples at wfu.edu.