Rebecca L. Spang

For political reasons, powerful people don’t want the country to pay its bills. History shows all that could go wrong.

Inflation isn't inexorably a bad thing. In fact, it used to be considered good.

Far from making Americans crave stability, the pandemic underscores how everything is up for grabs.

Restaurants have always been about more than feeding city residents. During the 1918 flu pandemic, they were kept open as sites of social solidarity.

Historians need to reclaim money as something to be studied in specific social and political contexts.

Understanding how inflation came to be a mainstay in modern economics.