Bimetallism, the "Crime of '73," and the Birth of the Free Silver Movement (HOM 27-B)

History of Money, Lecture 27, Pt. B: in the 1870s and 1890s the silver question ranked among the nation's most contentious political and economic questions. In this video we introduce the topic of bimetallism in the United States, ended with the Coinage Act of 1873, better known as the "Crime of '73".
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Dr. Jonathan Barth received his PhD in history from George Mason University in 2014. He specializes in the history of money and banking in the early modern period, with corollary interests in early modern politics, empire, culture, and ideas. Barth is Associate Professor of History at Arizona State University and Associate Director of the Center for American Institutions at Arizona State University.
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