Bonus Episode: Money Matters

This episode broadly explains why early Americans resorted to gold and silver currency and often looked with suspicion on paper banknotes (and also explains what those fundamentally are). And to finish up, there’s a discussion on the political arguments over central banks from the Revolution to the Jacksonian era. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit uscivilwar.substack.com