Sound familiar? The Panic of 1837, America’s worst financial crisis of the 19th century, shares sobering parallels with the financial crash of 2008, says Jessica Lepler, PhD’08. Like the more recent ...

Challenges: Three months into Martin Van Buren’s presidency, the Panic of 1837 engulfed the country in its worst depression ... Van Buren enforced Jackson’s Indian Removal Act of 1830. In a ...