Congress and President George Washington chartered the First Bank of the United States in 1791. Federalists, led by Treasury ...

Fans of Alexander Hamilton will soon have a new place of pilgrimage in Philadelphia. Though Philly is best known as the laboratory for American independence, it was also arguably where the ...

But the Bank of the United States, like many of Hamilton's other ... Soon after he became the nation's first Treasury Secretary, he was already proposing a national equivalent.

The United States was a leading force in the establishment of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) in 1944 and remains the largest shareholder of the World Bank Group today ...

It’s what one historian calls an “elaborate, clunky machine,” one that’s been fundamental to American democracy for more than ...