Edward Balleisen, Associate Professor, Duke University.

"Reckoning with Risk: Responses to Business Failure and the Transformation of Nineteenth Century American Capitalism"

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A. Glenn Crothers, Assistant Professor of History, Indiana University Southeast.

"Managing Risk on the High Seas: Virginia Merchants and the Incorporation of Marine Insurance, 1760-1815"

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Matthew Mulcahy, Assistant Professor of History, College of Loyola (Baltimore).

"Weathering the Storms: Hurricanes and Plantation Agriculture in the BritishGreater Caribbean"     

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Joseph T. Rainer, Research Associate, HarperWeek, LLC.

"Between Rocky Soil and a Hard Marketplace: Opportunities and Risks Faced by Aspiring New England Peddlers, 1800-1845"

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Carol Wojtowicz Smith, Consulting Archivist for the Philadelphia Contributionship.

"The Research Potential of Early American Insurance Records"

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