Insurance
Insurance is sometimes called an "invisible" element of commerce, but the development of insurance products in Philadelphia changed the way the city developed and connected Philadelphia to larger financial markets around the ...
Hannah Farber
Hannah Farber is a Ph. D. candidate at the University of California, Berkeley, completing a dissertation on early American marine insurance in politics and culture. During 2012-13 she held fellowships at the Library Company of Philadelphia and the McNeil Center for Early American Studies.