The second world war wreaked devastation, but America had emerged as a geopolitical and industrial power. The ructions of the 1960s were still a decade ahead; the Depression’s privations were 15 ...

T HE SECOND WORLD WAR sparked decades of scholarship. By one count, 70,000 books had already been published by 1989. The 80th anniversary of the end of the war , both in Europe and Asia, is ...

When the Second Bank’s charter was due to expire in 1836, Congress saw the Bank’s merits and, at its request, passed a recharter bill in 1832.