Westward ho! -- An overview of banks and mortgage banking in the United States -- Mortgage banking in early Colorado -- Thrifts, trusts, and title companies as participants in the mortgage market -- Mortgage bankers, insurance companies, real estate companies, and the correspondent system --...

Introduction / Matthew Hild and Keri Leigh Merritt -- Section 1. The early republic and the Old South -- Origins of the Charleston Mechanic Society: white labor activism and slave competition in Charleston, South Carolina in the early national era / Thomas Brown -- "Vagrant negroes": the...