Lectures
Noontime Lecture Series
Lectures on historical topics relating to Treasury are regularly offered for current THA members, with occasional invitations for members to bring guests. Advanced information is provided to members and reservations are usually required. Lectures usually take place in the historic Cash Room of the Treasury Building. Speakers have included leading scholars and former Secretaries of the Treasury. Detailed information is provided to THA members in advance of each event.
Upcoming Live Lectures
Jeffrey Boutwell on Treasury Secretary George S. Boutwell
- Wednesday, September 17, 2025
- 12 - 1 pm ET | Live via Zoom
Jeffrey Boutwell, who shares a common ancestor with Treasury Secretary George Boutwell, will discuss his new biography of the former Secretary- Boutwell: Radical Republican and Champion of Democracy
Jill Eicher on Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon and Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill
- Thursday, October 23, 2025
- 12 - 1 pm ET | Live via Zoom
Jill Eicher will discuss her book Mellon vs. Churchill: The Untold Story of Treasury Titans at War.
Filmed Lectures
The Treasury’s Navy – U.S. Customs and U.S. Coast Guard
Retired Special Agent in Charge, United States Customs Service, Steven W. Hooper
- 11/18/2020
“Is this the Fruit of Freedom?”: Freedwomen and the Freedman’s Bank
Shennette Garrett-Scott, Ph.D.
- 11/04/2020
The 1913 Suffrage Parade and the Women's Fight for the Vote
Rebecca Boggs Roberts
- 03/04/2020
Reminiscences of My Time at Treasury: An Olympic Experience
Former United States Treasurer Angela Marie “Bay” Buchanan
- 11/13/2019
Complications for the United States from International Credits, 1913-1940
George Hall, Ph.D.
- 09/11/2019
Just before Bretton Woods: The Atlantic City Financial Conference, June 1944
Kurt Schuler, Ph.D.
- 07/17/2019
Alexander Hamilton and the Development of American Law
Kate Elizabeth Brown, Ph.D.
- 06/26/2019