Image: Scott Nelson continues to highlight the relevance of history to the current moment, and to burnish our reputation in the process. Check out his latest article on tariffs in AHA Perspectives published April 14, "Radical Tariffs Aren’t New, But They Have Been Disastrous". ............ Scott Reynolds Nelson has an essay in the Spring 2025 issue of Foreign Policy. You can read it on the website https://foreignpolicy.com/. The Awful History of Tariffs and Depressions, What the 19th century teaches us about what happens next. Essay by Scott Reynolds Nelson. Nelson is a history professor at the University of Georgia and the author of A Nation of Deadbeats: An Uncommon History of America's Financial Disasters and other books.
