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 ...

As president, however, Van Buren maintained Jacksonian policies that magnified an economic downturn, leading to the Panic of 1837 ... the Indian Removal Act of 1830, Van Buren's administration ...

The Great Financial Panic of 1873 - Closing the door of the Stock Exchange on its members, Saturday, Sept. 20th. Library of Congress Since the end of the Civil War, railroad construction in the ...