Lectures
“Floor Rules: The Unwritten Code of the Exchange,” Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, July 11, 2014.
“When Insider Trading was Legal,” Library of Congress, Washington, DC, April 2012.
“Social Networks on the Exchange Floor,” Social Science History Association Annual Conference, Boston, MA, November 2011.
Lecture and Book Signing, Library of Congress, Washington, DC, November 2011.
“Follow the Money,” Society of Civil War Historians, Southern Historical Association, Baltimore, MD, October 2011.
Civil War Authors Roundtable, Battle of Lexington Sesquicentennial Commemoration, Lexington, MO, September 2011.
“Where does Financial Innovation Start? Influence Networks in the Early Chicago Board of Trade,” Computation Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, July 2011.
Author Interview, Civil War Talk Radio, March 2011.
“The Chicago Board of Trade and the Origins of Futures Markets,” Social Science History Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, November 2010.
Book Launch and Lecture, United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, July 2010.
Author interview, United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, June 2010.
“Community Military Mobilization and Guerrilla Violence in the Civil War,” Von Gremp Workshop in Economic and Entrepreneurial History, University of California, Los Angeles, February 2009.
“War and the Administrative State: Military Mobilization and the American Civil War, 1861–62,” Social Science History Association Annual Conference, Miami, FL, October 2008.
Discussant, “Price and Currency Movements in the Long Run,” Social Science History Association Annual Conference, Miami, FL, October 2008.
“A Retrospective Panel of Mid Nineteenth-Century Entrepreneurs: St. Louis Bank Promoters, 1857–61,” Economic History Association Annual Conference, New Haven, CT, September 2008.
“The ‘Shifting Sands’ Problem: Changing Political Boundaries and Historical GIS,” Social Science History Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, November 2007.
Columbia University Prize in American Economic History in Honor of Allan Nevins —Finalist Presentation, Economic History Association Annual Conference, Austin, TX, September 2007.
“Bushwhacking and the Self-Destruction of Missouri’s Planter Elite, 1862–65,” American Historical Association Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA, January 2006.
“Rebel War Financing in Civil War Missouri, 1861–62,” Southern History Association Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA, November 2005.
“Sectional Loyalties and Institutional Transformation in Missouri’s Banks, 1861–70,” Business History Conference, Minneapolis, MN, May 2005.
“Financing Rebellion: Missouri’s Slaveholding Elite and the Push for Secession,” Missouri Conference on History, Jefferson City, MO, April 2004.
“Democracy in Extremis: Missouri’s State Election of 1862,” Missouri Graduate Student History Conference, Columbia, MO, March 2004.