Some Financial Data, 1832-34

• Table 1.1. Bank of the United States Balance Sheet, February 1832
• Table 1.2. BUS note circulation divided by branch office in slave states versus free states, February 1832 
• Table 1.3. Assets and Liabilities of the Country's State Banks, 1833-34
• A Note on How I Constructed These Tables 

Economic History and the History of Capitalism

• Measuring Worth - historical measures of currencies, GDP, inflation, gold, wages, etc.
• Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
• National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
• The History of Capitalism Initiative
• EH.net - a great site for economic historians
• Capital in the Twenty-First Century - Data, Graphs, and Tables from Thomas Piketty's 2014 bestseller  
• Sylla, Wright, and Cowen, "Alexander Hamilton, Central Banker: Crisis Management During the Financial Crisis of 1792," Business History Review 83, no. 1 (Spring 2009): 61-86.
• Walter Bagehot, Lombard Street (1873)​
• William Lazonick, working paper, "Labor in the Twenty-First Century," 2014
• CEO Pay in Various Countries 
• Oxfam Study on Global Inequality, January 2014
• Consumer Price Index (CPI) average, 2005-2015, graph
• Jobs Created and Unemployment Since Recession 
• Piketty, Saez, and Atkinson, "Top Incomes in the Long Run of History" Journal of Economic Literature 2011
• Thomas L. Hungerford, "Taxes and the Economy," Congressional Research Service (CRS), published September 2012
• The Great Divergence Since 1980 - Stagnant Wages Despite Higher Productivity  
• Richard John, "Governmental Institutions as Agents of Change," Studies in American Political Development (1997)

 The Great Depression and the Gold Standard 

• Barry Eichengreen, "The Origins and Nature of the Great Slump Revisited" (1992)
• Barry Eichengreen and Peter Temin, "The Gold Standard and the Great Depression" (2000)
• Ben Bernanke, "The Macroeconomics of the Great Depression" (1995)
• Stanley Lebergott, "The Measure and Behavior of Unemployment" (1957)
• Robert Coen, "Labor Force and Unemployment in the 1920's and 1930's: A Re-Examination Based on Postwar Experience" (1973)
• Michael Darby, "Three-and-a-Half Million U.S. Employees Have Been Mislaid: Or, an Explanation of Unemployment, 1934-1941" (1976)
• Christina Romer, "Spurious Volatility in Historical Unemployment Data" (1986)
• Douglas W. Diamond and Philip H. Dybvig, "Bank Runs, Deposit Insurance, and Liquidity" (1983)
• Supplementary Material: The Gold Standard Illusion

Miscellaneous Links on Race and Class in America

• Twitter Map of Hate Speech on election day, 2012
• Areas where Obama (Red, 2008) outperformed Gore (Blue, 2000)
• Map of large slaveholding counties versus Obama counties
• Political Geography -- Race, Immigration, and Voter Behavior Presentation 

The History of Politics and Elections

• A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation - Congressional Debates and Documents
• Congressional Biographical Directory - Search for any member of Congress, 1774-present
• A New Nation Votes -  searchable collection of election returns, 1787-1825
• Printers, Editors, and Publishers in Congress, 1789-1861 - run by Prof. Jeffrey L. Pasley
• Map of Lynching, 1940-1946
• A Report by the Equal Justice Initiative entitled "Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror"
• Map of Lynchings--over 4,000 killed 1877-1950
• Graph of Voting-age Population, in Millions, according to Demographic
• Map of largest voting group in each state 2012 election
• Paul Finkelman, "The Proslavery Origins of the Electoral College" (2002) 

Statistics, Census Records, and Maps​

• Collection of Historical Data - site run by Jim Goulding containing statistics on birth rates, crime, GDP, education, etc.
• HSUS - Historical Statistics of the United States
• History Map Archive
• Atlas of the Historical Geography of the US - fantastic collection of maps, run by University of Richmond

Climate Change - Random Sample of Peer Reviewed, Scientific Literature 

• Sybren Drijfhout, Article on disruption of Gulf Stream, Nature 2015
• Rasmus E. Benestad et al., "Learning from Mistakes in Climate Research," Theoretical Applied Climatology 2015 
• Ricarda Winkelman et al., "Combustion of Available Fossil Fuel Resources Sufficient to Eliminate the Antarctic Ice Sheet," Science Advances 2015 
• Marc C. Urban, "Accelerating Extinction Risk From Climate Change," Science 2015 
• Christophe McGlade and Paul Elkins, "The Geographical Distribution of Fossil Fuels Unused When Limiting Global Warming to 2 [degrees] C" Nature 2015 
• Michael Zemp et al., "Historically Unprecedented Global Glacier Decline in the Early 21st Century," Journal of Glaciology 61, no. 228 (2015)

Climate Change - Research and Teaching Resources

• Graphs, Data, Models, and Predictions 
• Corporate Media, False Objectivity, and Peer Review
• Analyzing Climate Myths and Denialism 
• ​List of Resources to Check on Climate Change
  
• Supplementary Material - The Conservation Movement