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Eleventh Annual Meeting Connecticut Supreme Court Historical Society Thursday, May 12, 2016 How to Make a Dead Man: Murder, Suicide, and Insurance Fraud in Nineteenth-Century New England Hartford Club, Hartford, Co-sponsored by The Travelers Companies Reservation by May 6 - PDF  Sharon Ann Murphy received her PhD in history from the University of
Virginia in 2005. She is currently a professor of history at
Providence College, where she teaches classes on the Early
American Republic and Antebellum America, American Business
History, and Panics and Depressions in American History. Her
research examines the complex interactions between financial
institutions and their clientele in the nineteenth century.
She is the author of Investing in Life: Insurance in
Antebellum America (2010), winner of the 2012 Hagley Prize for
the best book in business history, and the forthcoming book
Other People's Money: How Banking Worked in the Early American
Republic. Among her latest projects is an investigation of the
public perception of banks around the Panic of 1819, and an
examination of the relationship between commercial banks and
slavery during the antebellum period.
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