About

The Imperial Dollar Project is a digital history initiative aimed using the power of new media to make sense of American money. United States currency has a long and complicated past; one poorly understood through any single lens–from economics, the history of capitalism, and numismatics.

The goal of this on-going project is to become a hub for an array of digital content on the story of American money, from blog posts to original video profiles. By removing the imaginary wall between “academic” material and “popular history”–which has left important questions ignored or poorly answered–the Imperial Dollar Project seeks to bring a more complete picture of the dollar to anyone interested in our nation’s currency.