![]() The First Bank was crucial to Hamilton’s financial system. ![]() ![]() The talk traced conflicts and alliances among Hamilton, Jefferson, Madison, Gallatin, and ordinary people who had financial ideas of their own connected those conflicts to ensuing generations’ decisions regarding debt, speculation, foreclosures, and taxation and revealed the startling relevance of founding American struggles over economics to our political struggles today. The country’s first national financial institution, chartered by Congress in 1791 for 20 years, with a building completed in 1797, the First Bank is located directly across Third Street from the Museum.ĭrawing both on his 2012 book Founding Finance and his narrative trilogy The Whiskey Rebellion, Declaration, and Autumn of the Black Snake, Hogeland presented a lecture titled Hamilton's Hub: The First Bank of the U.S. Treasury secretary, Alexander Hamilton, and the bank’s relevance today. Author and historian William Hogeland joined the Museum in October 2022, to discuss the establishment of the First Bank of the United States, hub of the comprehensive system of national finance created by the first U.S. ![]()
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