The volumes in this collection are organized thematically and examine the history of key financial institutions before and after the establishment of the Federal Reserve.
Part II Volume 6 Central Banking Introduction Eleazar Lord, Six Letters on the Necessity and Practicability of a National Currency (1862) Anon., An Examination into the Prospective Effects of the National Banks upon the Public Welfare (1863) Waldo Flint, Some Strictures on an Act to Provide a National Currency(1863) James Gallatin, Letters on the Proposed United States Banking System, from the New York Commercial Advertiser, 21 June 1862 and 11 April 1864 Anon., ‘The National Banks: Down with the Banks – Greenbacks Forever’, reprinted from Hines Quarterly (April 1869) Moses Lewis Scudder Jr, National Banking (1879) Silas M. Stilwell, Private History (1879) Thomas Kinsella, National Banks (1882) Freeman O. Willey, Whither are we Drifting as a Nation? (1882) Theodore P. Gilman, A Graded Banking System (1898), excerpts Franklin Albert Cleveland, ‘The Financial Reports of National Banks as a Means of Public Control’ (1904) Franklin Albert Cleveland, The Bank and the Treasury (1908), excerpts Walter Henry Hull (ed.), Practical Problems in Banking and Currency (1907), excerpts Robert L. Owen, ‘Th e Federal Reserve Bank Bill’ (1913–14) Joseph T. Talbert, ‘Clearing-House and Domestic Exchange Functions of the Federal Reserve Bank’ (1913–14) Editorial Notes Index
