Graduate Alumnus David's project analyzes the distinctive role of Union bonds in global finance and state formation during the mid nineteenth century. Specifically he is interested in the American Civil War “as sold” by a quirky set of Union financiers and subcontractors who canvassed far and wide to sell a particular version of “America” to investors at home and abroad. Equally important to the study is the host of characters—crossing gender, racial, and national boundaries— whose confidence in the imperiled American Union paved the way for a global Gilded Age in which increasingly complex, broadly-distributed financial instruments projected both American power and a new ‘gospel’ of wealth. Research Research Areas: Capitalism and Economics Cultural & Intellectual Religion Transnational U.S. 19th & 20th Century Degree Completion Date: Tue, 08/16/2016 - 12:00pm Selected Publications Selected Publications: Thomson, David. “Bonds Of War: The Evolution Of Financial Markets In The Civil War Era North”. 2016: n. pag. Print. Thomson, David. “Lehman Brothers Goes To War”. 2013. Web. Thomson, David. We Are In His Hands Whether We Live Or Die: The Letters Of Brevet Brigadier General Charles Henry Howard. University of Tennessee Press, 2013. Web. Thomson, David. “Oliver Otis Howard: Reassessing The Legacy Of The 'christian General'”. American Nineteenth Century History (2009): n. pag. Print. Other Information Of note: Gregory Graduate Research Award, UGA History Department, 2012 Rothschild Archive Research Bursary, Rothschild Archive, London, England, 2012 Willson Center Graduate Research Award, Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, University of Georgia, 2012 Gregory Graduate Research Award, UGA History Department, 2013 University of Georgia Franklin College--University of Liverpool Doctoral Student Short Term International Research Fellowship, University of Georgia, 2013 History Project Research Grant, Harvard Center for History and Economics, 2013 Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Travel Fellowship, Harvard Business School, 2013 Marty and Bruce Coffey Fellow, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California, 2014 Program in Early American Economy and Society Fellowship, Library Company of Philadelphia, 2014 Short-Term Research Fellowship, New York Public Library, 2014 Everett Helm Visiting Fellowship, Indiana University, 2014 Gilder Lehrman Fellowship, Gilder Lehrman Institute, New York, New York, 2014
