1. Public Debt for Development? The Civil War Debt and the Shaping of the U.S. Developmental State • Nicolas Barreyre, Ehess.

2. Uneven Development, Mining, and Money in the Nineteenth-Century United States • Emma Teitelman, McGill University.

3. Theorizing Canada as a Challenge to the American Developmental State: From John Rae to Jacob Viner • Elsbeth Heaman, McGill.