Dr. Tiemann’s paper on the 1855 collapse of Page & Bacon published in California History journal

By |2025-05-27T08:02:24-07:00May 1st, 2025|Archival research, Banking, California History, Gold Rush, TIA|

California History journal publishes Dr. Tiemann's paper Dr. Tiemann's paper on the 1855 collapse of the banking houses of Page & Bacon (St. Louis) and Page, Bacon & Co. (San Francisco) appears in the current issue of the journal California History, published by the University of California press.  Dr. Tiemann's essay analyzes the 1855 failures of the largest banks [...]

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Dr. Tiemann’s year-end book report for 2024

By |2025-05-27T09:09:10-07:00January 12th, 2025|Asset Managers, California History, Fiction, Gold Rush, History, Literature, Non-Fiction, TIA, True expertise|

Dr. Tiemann's Year-End Book Report Another Year of Reading I started my Medium of Exchange Substack a year ago with a report on the books I had read in 2023. I had kept a resolution to read fifty books that year, and I enjoyed it so much that I resolved to do it again in 2024. I’ll confess [...]

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Dr. Tiemann’s year-end book report

By |2023-12-31T09:55:01-08:00December 24th, 2023|California History, Fiction, Gold Rush, History, Literature, Non-Fiction, True expertise|

Dr. Tiemann's Year-End Book Report I cannot live without books, but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object. —Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, June 10, 18151 A Rarity—A Resolution Kept. Last year at about this time (late December, 2022), I made a New Year’s resolution. Several really, but one of them [...]

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Dr. Tiemann scheduled to teach 3rd case study for Oxford University

By |2022-03-04T00:11:52-08:00February 28th, 2022|Archival research, Banking, California History, Gold Rush, international Finance|

Dr. Tiemann's Russian-American Co. and Alaskan fur rush research will be taught at the Global History of Capitalism project at Oxford in June 2022 Dr. Tiemann has written and will be teaching his third Oxford Case study on the topic of "The Alaskan fur rush and the Russian-American Company," in partnership with Dr. Christopher McKenna for the Global [...]

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Dr. Tiemann on Fort Ross Dialogue Panel

By |2021-11-04T21:31:58-07:00November 2nd, 2021|Archival research, Banking, California History, Gold Rush, international Finance|

On November 2, Dr Tiemann participated in a panel discussion for the Fort Ross Dialogue, the annual policy and history conference of the Fort Ross Conservancy, on the Pacific coast in Sonoma County, California. Dr Tiemann and Professor Christopher McKenna, of the University of Oxford, talk about Dr Tiemann’s research on the economic history of California in the first half of the 19th century.

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Dr. Tiemann teaches 2nd Gold Rush case study for Oxford University

By |2021-05-10T21:09:10-07:00May 10th, 2021|Archival research, Banking, California History, Gold Rush, international Finance|

Dr. Tiemann's Gold Rush research provides instruction for the Global History of Capitalism project at Oxford Dr. Tiemann has written and will be teaching his second Oxford Case study on the topic of "Discounting gold: Money and banking in Gold Rush Californi, in partnership with Dr. Christopher McKenna for the Global History of Capital Project.  Dr. Tiemann has [...]

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Dr. Tiemann’s Gold Rush research featured by California Historical Society

By |2020-08-08T14:47:14-07:00July 23rd, 2020|Archival research, Banking, California History, Gold Rush, TIA|

California Historical Society blog features Dr. Tiemann's research Dr. Tiemann has devoted much of his spare time researching, reading and exploring archival materials about how banking emerged during the years both prior to as well as during the California Gold Rush.  In the course of his research, he has dug deep into both the Huntington Library and the [...]

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Cattle Hides to Crimean War

By |2019-03-20T23:38:57-07:00March 20th, 2019|Banking, Business News, California History, Financial Health, Gold Rush, TIA|

Dr. Tiemann presents  a California Gold Rush talk to the Fellowship Forum Dr. Tiemann was the invited speaker at the Fellowship Forum in Palo Alto on March 19, 2019. This is a local group that meets weekly to hear speakers on a variety of topics. Dr. Tiemann spoke about banking in early California history, both before and after the Gold [...]

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