The Postal Savings System offered depositors a US government-backed guarantee of security, but it was undone by for-profit private banks.

Coins were used for centuries in many ritual contexts, but the English silver sixpence was a particularly common charm—for several reasons.

The one-way movement of wealth in the banana trade contributed to the political and economic conditions that challenged its hegemony after World War II.

Not only did post-World War II policy give the United States a managerial position in the world order, it gave it an outsize role in shaping the global economy.

Sociologist Radhakamal Mukerjee helped shape a new view of sociology from an Indian perspective, contributing to the independence movement.

Puzzles, or “dissected maps,” were invented in Georgian-era England, probably by a mapmaker named John Spilsbury in the early 1760s.

Maybe it's something about the number eleven?

The New Deal revolutions in law and policy were so successful that the economist John Kenneth Galbraith took their accomplishment for granted.

In the Great Depression, Borden sought a new spokescow to help preserve its traditional agrarian image.