Jessica M. Lepler

Jessica M. Lepler is an associate professor of history at the University of New Hampshire. Her first book, The Many Panics of 1837: People, Politics, and the Creation of a Transatlantic Financial Crisis (2013), won the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic's James Broussard Best First Book Prize. She is currently researching and writing a book tentatively entitled "The Lawyer Imperfect: Aaron Haight Palmer and the Culture of Commercial Expansionism in Nineteenth-Century America."

Lectures

• A Man, a Plan, and a Canal Contract: An American's Attempt to Build an Interoceanic Canal in the 1820s
• "The American and Foreign Agency": Profit and a Prophet of American Commercial Expansionism
• The Declaration of Dependence: Voluntary Annexation, Salvadoran Statehood, and the Monroe Doctrine
• The Many Panics of 1837: People, Politics, and the Creation of a Transatlantic Financial Crisis
• "Le Dérangement des Affaires Commerciales": New Orleans and Panic in 1837
• The Panic-less Panic: The Strange Career of the Panic of 1837
• The Case of the Leaky Clerk: Commercial Information, Confidence, and the Panic of 1837