Todays panel on the crises of the 1970s. So we have a great panel today. I am going to just start up i talk a little bit about what how we kind of framed this panel and how we are hoping what we are hoping to accomplish. We have the roundtable intensely. We are each want to speak about 10 minutes. Just a few roof remarks about the literature on the 1970s and thinking about the 1970s and what this unique time means to us today. And then we would like to open it up for a lot of conversation both with each other and most importantly with the audience. So we will be sticking to a pretty tight time and hopefully having a lot of time for comp for conversation. One of the things we were thinking about was the central role of the idea of crisis in thinking about the 1970s, both in the contemporary clinical imagination of a time and also in historical scholarship. From watergate to the energy crisis, the urban crisis, a fiscal crisis, the rhetoric of the era is huge with extensive danger and hi
Made america rich. Museumhe cochair of the and serves on the smithsonian council. An advisory he has been the museums president and ceo since 2009. He has established several new initiatives including the center for Financial Education and Museum Finance academy. He has curated and worked on over half a dozen exhibits and displays including our current exhibit commemorating the Centennial Anniversary of the federal reserve. Today, david will explore how one of the treasurys greatest leaders help fight the war of 1812. I will now turn the program over to david cowen. [applause] thank you. I appreciate the opportunity to talk about the war of 1812. We are in the bicentennial of the events of the war of 1812. We will break it down into three different sections. We will have the background of what led us into the war. We will then do the war itself capable to the first two parts quickly. And we will get into the main event of what we will discuss today, the financing of the war of 1812. Us
I am pleased to introduce david cowan. He has written extensively on u. S. Financial history and is the coauthor of financial founding fathers, the man who made america rich. He is the cochair of the International Federation of finance museums and serves on the smithsonian affiliates Advisory Council as well as the Federal Reserve boards centennial Advisory Council. David has been the museums president and ceo since 2009. He has established several new initiatives, including the center for Financial Education and then using finance academy. He has curated or guest curated on over half a dozen exhibits and displays, incurring including our current exhibit. Will explore how one of the treasurys greatest leaders helped fight the war of 1812. I will now turn the program over to david cowan. Thank you. I appreciate the opportunity to talk about the war of 1812. We are at the bicentennial of the events. We are going to break it down into three different sections. We are going to break a brea