Sklansky, Jeffrey. “William Leggett and the Melodrama of the Market.” In Michael Zakim and Gary J. Kornblith, eds., Capitalism Takes Command: Essays on Capitalism in Nineteenth-Century America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012, 199–222.
Wilentz, Sean. The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln. New York: Norton, 2005.
Antebellum and Civil War-Era Banking
Anbinder, Tyler. “Moving Beyond ‘Rags to Riches’: New York’s Irish Famine Immigrants and Their Surprising Savings Accounts.” The Journal of American History (December 2012): 741–770.
Beckert, Sven. The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie, 1850–1896. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Gibbons, James Sloan. The Banks of New-York, Their Dealers, The Clearing-House, and the Panic of 1857. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1859.
Gilbert, Abby L. “The Comptroller of the Currency and the Freedman’s Savings Bank.” The Journal of Negro History 57, no. 2 (April 1972): 125–143.
Gische, David M. “The New York City Banks and the Development of the National Banking System, 1860–1870.” American Journal of Legal History 23 (1979): 21–67.
Hammond, Bray. Sovereignty and an Empty Purse: Banks and Politics in the Civil War. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1970.
Hodas, Daniel. The Business Career of Moses Taylor: Merchant, Finance Capitalist, and Industrialist. New York: New York University Press, 1976.
Katz, Irving. August Belmont: A Political Biography. New York: Columbia University Press, 1968.
Mihm, Stephen. A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007.
Oberholtzer, Ellis Paxon. Jay Cooke: Financier of the Civil War. Volume One. Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs, 1907.
Osthaus, Carl R. Freedmen, Philanthropy, and Fraud: A History of the Freedman’s Savings Bank. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1976.
Gilded Age Banking
Beckert, Sven. The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie, 1850–1896. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Fleming, Ann. “The Borrower’s Tale: A History of Poor Debtors in Lochner Era New York City.” Law and History Review 30, no. 4 (November 2012): 1053–1098.
Hammack, David C. Power and Society: Greater New York at the Turn of the Century. New York: Columbia University Press, 1982.
James, John A. Money and Capital Markets in Postbellum America. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1978.
Kessner, Thomas. Capital City: New York City and the Men Behind America’s Rise to Economic Dominance, 1860–1900. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003.
Kobrin, Rebecca. “Jewish Immigrant ‘Bankers,’ Financial Failure, and the Shifting Contours of American Commercial Banking, 1914–1918.” AJS Perspectives: The Magazine of the Association for Jewish Studies (Fall 2009).
Ott, Julia. When Wall Street Met Main Street: The Quest for an Investors’ Democracy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011.
Pak, Susie J. Gentlemen Bankers: The World of J. P. Morgan. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013.
Slack, Charles. Hetty: The Genius and Madness of America’s First Female Tycoon. New York: Ecco, 2004.
Strouse, Jean. Morgan: American Financier. New York: Random House, 1999.
Sylla, Richard. “Federal Policy, Banking Market Structure, and Capital Mobilization in the United States, 1863–1913.” The Journal of Economic History 29, no. 4 (December 1969): 657–686.
Wallach, Janet. The Richest Woman in America: Hetty Green in the Gilded Age. New York: Random House Digital, 2012.
Reform Movements from Greenbackism to Progressivism
Ahamed, Liaquat. Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World. New York: Penguin, 2009.
Brandeis, Louis D. Other People’s Money and How the Bankers Use It. Edited with an introduction by Melvin I. Urofsky. Boston: Bedford Books of St. Martin’s Press, 1995.
Chernow, Ron. The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family. New York: Random House, 1993.
Conway, J. North. King of Heists: The Sensational Bank Robbery of 1878 That Shocked America. Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2009.
Cowing, Cedric B. Populists, Plungers and Progressives: A Social History of Stock and Commodity Speculation, 1890–1936. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1965.
Gage, Beverly. The Day Wall Street Exploded: A Story of America in Its First Age of Terror. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
James, John A. Money and Capital Markets in Postbellum America. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1978.
Johnson, David R. Illegal Tender: Counterfeiting and the Secret Service in Nineteenth-Century America. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995.
Livingston, James. Origins of the Federal Reserve System: Money, Class, and Corporate Capitalism, 1890–1913. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1986.
Melanson, Philip and Peter Stevens. The Secret Service: The Hidden History of an Enigmatic Agency. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2002.
Meltzer, Allan H. A History of the Federal Reserve: Volume 1, 1913–1951. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.
Ritter, Gretchen. Goldbugs and Greenbacks: The Antimonopoly Tradition and the Politics of Finance in America, 1865–1896. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Unger, Irwin. The Greenback Era: A Social and Political History of American Finance, 1865–1879. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1964.
The Great Depression and World War II
Bayor, Ronald H. Neighbors in Conflict: The Irish, Germans, Jews, and Italians of New York City, 1929–1941. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978.
Caro, Robert. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York. New York: Vintage, 1974.
Friedman, Milton and Anna Jacobson Schwartz. A Monetary History of the United States, 1867–1960. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1971.
Galbraith, John Kenneth. The Great Crash, 1929. New York: Mariner Books, 2009.
Greenberg, Cheryl Lynn. Or Does It Explode? Black Harlem in the Great Depression. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
Jackson, Kenneth. Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.
Kessner, Thomas. Fiorello H. La Guardia and the Making of Modern New York. New York: Penguin, 1989.
Massey, Douglas and Nancy Denton. American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993.
Moody, J. Carroll and Gilbert C. Fite. The Credit Union Movement: Origins and Development 1850–1980. Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company.
Pecora, Ferdinand. Wall Street Under Oath: The Story of Our Modern Money Changers. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1939.
Wilder, Craig Steven. A Covenant with Color: Race and Social Power in Brooklyn. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000.
Banking in the Postwar Era
Biondi, Martha. To Stand and Fight: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Postwar New York City. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003.
Caro, Robert A. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York. New York: Vintage, 1974.
Nocera, Joseph. A Piece of the Action: How the Middle Class Joined the Money Class. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994.
Rockefeller, David. Memoirs. New York: Random House, 2003.
Starr, Peter. Citibank: A Century in Asia. Singapore: Editions Didier Millet, 2002.
Sylla, Richard. “United States Banks and Europe: Strategy and Attitudes.” In Stefano Battilossi and Youssef Cassis, eds., European Banks and the American Challenge: Competition and Cooperation in International Banking Under Bretton Woods. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002, 53–73.
Wolters, Timothy. “‘Carry your credit in your pocket’: The Early History of the Credit Card at Bank of America and Chase Manhattan.” Enterprise and Society 1, no. 2 (2000): 315–354.
Zumello, Christine. “The ‘Everything Card’ and Consumer Credit in the United States in the 1960s.” Business History Review 85, no. 3 (2011): 551–575.
Zweig, Philip L. Wriston: Walter Wriston, Citibank, and the Rise and Fall of American Financial Supremacy. New York: Crown, 1995.
Banking in the Late 20th Century
Abu-Lughod, Janet L. New York, Chicago, Los Angeles: America’s Global Cities. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999.
Auletta, Ken. The Streets Were Paved with Gold. New York: Random House, 1979.
Brigham, James R., Jr. and Alair Townsend. “The Fiscal Crisis.” In Michael Goodwin, ed., New York Comes Back: The Mayoralty of Edward I. Koch. New York: powerHouse Books in association with the Museum of the City of New York, 2005, 29–33.
Drennan, Matthew. “The Decline and Rise of the New York Economy.” In John H. Mollenkopf and Manuel Castells, eds., Dual City: Restructuring New York (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1991), 25–41.
Freeman, Joshua B. Working-Class New York: Life and Labor Since World War II. New York: The New Press, 2000.
Geisst, Charles R. Wall Street: A History, Updated Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Ho, Karen. Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009.
Jonnes, Jill. South Bronx Rising: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of an American City. New York: Fordham University Press, 2002.
Lachman, Seymour P. and Robert Polner. The Man Who Saved New York: Hugh Carey and the Great Fiscal Crisis of 1975. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2011.
Madrick, Jeff. Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present. New York: Knopf, 2011.
Mollenkopf, John Hull. A Phoenix in the Ashes: The Rise and Fall of the Koch Coalition in New York City Politics. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992.
——. “The Postindustrial Transformation of the Political Order in New York City.” In John Hull Mollenkopf, ed., Power, Culture, and Place: Essays on New York City. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1988, 223–258.
Moody, Kim. From Welfare State to Real Estate: Regime Change in New York City. New York: New Press, 2007.
O’Cleireacain, Carol. “The Private Economy and the Public Budget of New York City.” In Margaret E. Crahan and Alberto Vourvoulias-Bush, eds., The City and the World: New York’s Global Future. New York: The Council on Foreign Relations, 1997, 22–38.
Patterson, Scott. The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It. New York: Crown Business, 2010.
Rose, Joseph B. “Riding the Wave of Economic Development.” In Michael Goodwin, ed., New York Comes Back: The Mayoralty of Edward I. Koch. New York: powerHouse Books in association with the Museum of the City of New York, 2005, 84–89.
Vanatta, Sean Harris. “A Crisis of Credit: Jimmy Carter, Citibank, and the Political Economy of Consumer Credit, 1958–1985.” M.A. thesis, The University of Georgia, 2011.
Zweig, Philip L. Wriston: Walter Wriston, Citibank, and the Rise and Fall of American Financial Supremacy. New York: Crown, 1995.
Banking in the Early 21st Century