MUSEUM NEWS
THE TICKER
Columbia University Press Launches Series
on the History of US Capitalism
Capitalism has served as an engine
of growth, a source of inequality and a
catalyst for conflict in American history.
While remaking our material world, capi-
talism’s myriad forms have altered — and
been shaped by — our most fundamen-
tal experiences of race, gender, sexuality,
nation and citizenship.
Columbia University Press recently
launched the “Columbia Studies in the
History of US Capitalism Series,” a book
series that takes the full measure of the
complexity and significance of capitalism,
placing it squarely back at the center of the
American experience.
By drawing insight and inspiration from
a range of disciplines and alloying novel
methods of social, political and cultural
analysis with the traditions of labor and
business history, these authors take history
“from the bottom up” all the way to the top.
The Series launched in 2017 with two
books: From Head Shops to Whole Foods:
The Rise and Fall of Activist Entrepreneurs,
by Joshua Clark Davis (see article, page
20) and Creditworthy: A History of Con-
sumer Surveillance and Financial Identity
in America, by Josh Lauer (see Financial
History, issue #122).
Forthcoming books in the series include
American Capitalism: New Histories, edited
by Sven Beckert and Christine Desan; “Let
Us Have a Bank”: The St. Luke Bank and
Black Women in Finance, 1850s–1930s, by
Shennette Garrett-Scott; and Empire and
the Afterlife of Slavery, by Justin Leroy.
For more information on this series,
please visit https://cup.columbia.edu/hoc.
UPCOMING EVENTS CALENDAR
Oct 28 Walking Tour: 30th Annual Great Crashes Tour. 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. $15 includes Museum admission.
Nov 10 Walking Tour: Veterans in Downtown New York. 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. $15 includes admission to the Museum and
the Lunch and Learn with Sidney Rocke.
Nov 10 Lunch and Learn Series: Sidney Rocke on “Mutilated Currency: Redeeming Cash and Fighting Scams.”
Talk followed by Q&A. 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. $5 includes Museum admission; members and students free.
Nov 16 Walking Tour: When New York Was New Amsterdam. 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. $15 includes admission to the Museum
and the Lunch and Learn with Kenneth Winans.
Nov 16 Lunch and Learn Series: Kenneth Winans on “What They Don’t Teach at Harvard: History as an Investment Tool.”
Talk followed by Q&A and book signing. 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. $5 includes Museum admission; members and students free.
Nov 28 Full-Day Conference: “Restoring American Economic Dynamism: New Solutions for America’s Productivity Slowdown.”
Co-presented with the CFA Institute Research Foundation and S&P Global Market Intelligence. $100 general admission;
$40 Museum and CFA Institute members; $25 students; free for working members of the press. Reservations required.
Dec 16 Walking Tour: Holidays on the Street. 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. $15 includes Museum admission.
All events are held at the Museum (48 Wall Street, NYC) unless otherwise noted.
For more information or to register online, visit www.moaf.org/events.
DEC 27
1928
Portfolio manager Walter Morgan founds the nation’s first “balanced” mutual fund, the Industrial and Power Securities
Co., which invests in both stocks and bonds. Later renamed the Wellington Fund, it eventually forms the nucleus of the
Vanguard Group of Investment Companies.
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