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URL: http://www.ex.ac.uk/~RDavies/arian/current/howmuch.html
ODP description: Links to inflation statistics, price indexes, and sources of data on changes in the value of money.

URL: http://www.frbsf.org/currency/index.html
ODP description: The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco's online exhibit of historical US currency, with contextual information on the related status of the money system, banking, and the economy.
Page title: Historical American Currency Exhibit at the FRBSF

URL: http://www.businesshistory.net/
ODP description: Large resource of histories and stories of American business, including audio and video archives, academic and corporate articles, and "fun facts."
Page title: businesshistory.net

URL: http://www.lope.ca/markets/1987crash/
ODP description: A look back at the 1987 stock market crash. Provides a description of the event, charts, and an account of the causes they may have led to the 23% decline.
Page title: Lope Markets - 1987 Stock Market Crash Page

URL: http://paperbarn.www1.50megs.com/Paperbacks/index.htm
ODP description: A multi-part, illustrated history of paperback publishing, with special emphasis on the United States.

URL: http://eh.net/EHA/
ODP description: Founded in 1940 to encourage and promote teaching, research and publication on every phase of economic history, and to encourage and assist in the preservation and administration of research materials in the field.
Page title: Economic History Association |

URL: http://oldsite.library.upenn.edu/etext/collections/lippincott/
ODP description: This site contains facsimiles of historic corporate annual reports from the Lippincott Library collection at the University of Pennsylvania.
Page description: This site contains facsimiles of corporate annual reports from the Lippincott Library collection at the University of Pennsylvania. The reports are in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) and the full text of the reports is indexed and searchable.

URL: http://www.historyhouse.com/in_history/tulip/
ODP description: Article discussing the historical value of tulip bulbs.
Page title: History House: Tulipomania
Page description: Like beanie babies and DrKoop, tulips used to be all the rage.

URL: http://www.simun.info/ehlog/
ODP description: A weblog about economic history of the world, together with some history of technology and related entries.

URL: http://www.cftech.com/BrainBank/CORPORATEADMINISTRATION/OldestCos.html
ODP description: The ten oldest companies in the U.S. by Rank.
Page title: The Oldest Companies

URL: http://ancienthistory.about.com/cs/economics/index.htm
ODP description: Articles on accounting, money, taxation, and other aspects of economics in antiquity.
Page title: Information on trade, taxation, currency, inflation and attitudes towards money.
Page description: Information on trade, taxation, currency, inflation and attitudes towards money.

URL: http://www.miseryindex.us
ODP description: The misery index was initiated by Chicago Economist Robert Barro in the 1970's. It is simply the unemployment rate added to the inflation rate. It is assumed that both a higher rate of unemployment and a worsening of inflation both create economic and social costs for a country.
Page title: The United States Misery Index
Page description: The United States Misery Index. The US Misery Index. Misery Index = Unemployment rate + Inflation rate.

URL: http://www.reading.ac.uk/business/Research/Centres/bus-CIBH.asp
ODP description: News about business history research and information about the center.
Page title: Business School - Centre for International Business History (CIBH) - University of Reading
Page description: Business School - Centre for International Business History (CIBH)

URL: http://www.fdic.gov/bank/historical/history/
ODP description: Published by the FDIC, with statistical information starting in 1934, a list of failed banks, and history of deposit insurance.
Page title: FDIC: History of the Eighties - Lessons for the Future

URL: http://historyofeconomics.org/
ODP description: Provides access to resources for teaching, scholarship and research in the history of economics and economic thought.
Page title: History of Economics Society

URL: http://www.bpubs.com/Economics/Economic_History/
ODP description: A collection of business articles related to Economic History.
Page title: BPubs.com: Economics/Economic_History
Page description: Business Publications Related to Economics.

URL: http://www.h-net.org/~business/
ODP description: H-Business is an on-line newsletter for the Business History Conference.
Page title: H-Business Discussion Network

URL: http://www.eh.net/ehresources/howmuch/dollarq.php
ODP description: Interactive tool to compare the purchasing power of money in the United States (or colonies) from any year to any other year from the 1600s to today.
Page title: How Much Is That? | EH.Net

URL: http://www.thecatalogshop.co.uk
ODP description: Seven decades of Littlewoods catalogues for home shopping in Britain. The social history of Littlewoods mail order business from the early 1930s up to the present day.
Page title: Littlewoods catalogue - Save £15 on your first order
Page description: Littlewoods catalogue - Shop on-line at the Littlewoods Website - a history of mail order home shopping in britian over seven decades.

URL: http://www.techhistory.co.nz/
ODP description: The site tells stories about the technologies important to the New Zealand economy in the 20th Century. Most of these technologies were identified by the end of the First World War.
Page title: Technology Innovation in New Zealand

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