Modern-day banks provide many services to their customers: checking and savings accounts, mortgages, investment advice, and the like.

Amy Farber Old Sturbridge Village (OSV) is an historic site, a living museum located in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, that has a well-developed public website. Its page about banking in the early 1800s describes the Thompson Bank (see also video of exterior), which was constructed in the 1830s in Thompson, Connecticut, was a bank until 1893, and […]

Looking far back, all the way to the Middle Ages, people were in many ways very similar to those living today.

More than seventy-four years ago, on September 21, 1938, a devastating hurricane—sometimes referred to as the Long Island Express—struck the southern shore of Long Island without much warning, killing fifty people and causing massive property damage.

On March 6, 1933, President Roosevelt issued a proclamation of a national bank holiday, which prohibited the withdrawal of gold for hoarding and other purposes and resulted in the temporary closure of all banks in the United States.

In 1947, if you didn’t quite understand banking basics, the ten-and-a-half-minute film “Using the Bank” might have served as an introduction.

The Forum. This is where finance happened in ancient Rome.

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