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The Bank War and the Partisan Press: Newspapers, Financial Institutions, and the Post Office in Jacksonian America
(Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, January 2019) ISBN: 978-0700627448
Refereed Journal Articles and Book Chapters
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A Very Large Extent of Virgin Land': Nicholas Biddle, Cotton and the Expansion of Slavery
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Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography
145, no. 1 (January 2021): 33-65.
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Funding the Bank War: Nicholas Biddle and the Public Relations Campaign to Re-Charter the Second Bank of the United States, 1828-1832
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American Nineteenth Century History
17, no. 3 (Fall 2016): 273-299
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Internal Improvement
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A Companion to the Era of Andrew Jackson
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2013): 130-153
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The Spoils of Victory: Amos Kendall, the Antebellum State, and the Growth of the American Presidency in the Bank War, 1828-1834
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Ohio Valley History
11, no. 2 (Summer 2011): 3-25
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Hickory Wind: The Role of Personality and the Press in Andrew Jackson's Bank War in Missouri, 1831-1837
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Missouri Historical Review
101, no. 3 (April 2007): 146-167
Encyclopedia Entries
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Nicholas Biddle
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The Economic Historian Open Access Encyclopedia
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The Panic of 1837
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The Economic Historian Open Access Encyclopedia
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The Second Bank of the United States
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The Economic Historian Open Access Encyclopedia
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The Transatlantic Financial Crisis of 1837
," in William Beezley, ed.,
The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History
(March 2017)
Web-Based Publications
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The Great Depression Will Not Help Us Solve the COVID-19 Downturn
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Zocalo Public Square
(August 2020)
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A 'Peculiar Institution': The Global and Southern Reach of the Second Bank of the United States, 1820-1840
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The Docket: Law and History Review
(September 2019)
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O Ye Biased Professors! The Question of Objectivity and Liberal Bias in the History Profession
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Tropics of Meta: Historiography for the Masses
(February 2019)
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Steve Campbell on His New Bank War Book
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Jacksonian America: Society, Personality, and Politics
(February 2019)
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Andrew Jackson's Bank War and America's Long Quest to Reconcile Corporate Money with Democratic Elections
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The Economic Historian
(January 2019)
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A Vast Political Corporation: The Power of the Post Office in the Bank War
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We're History: America then for Americans Now
(October 2018)
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Reimagining the Second Bank of the United States in Early American History
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The Junto
(January 2017)
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The Rise and Fall of the White Working Class
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History News Network
(June 2016)
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A Historian's Report Card on the FED
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History News Network
(November 2015)
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Improving Wikipedia: Notes From An Informed Skeptic
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Perspectives on History
(May 2014)