Jonathan Barth
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Mail code: 4302Campus: Tempe
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Jonathan Barth is Associate Professor of History, specializing in the history of money and politics in early America. His first book, The Currency of Empire: Money and Power in Seventeenth-Century English America, was published with Cornell University Press in 2021. The book reinterprets many of the most explosive political episodes of the seventeenth century through a currency lens, shedding new light on a number of hallmark events from the era.
Prior to joining the faculty at Arizona State University, Barth received his B.A. in secondary education, history at Appalachian State University (2005); his M.A. in history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (2009); and a doctorate in history at George Mason University (2014).
Barth is also Associate Director of the Center for American Institutions at Arizona State University, and Associate Lead of the Political History and Leadership Program in the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies at Arizona State University.
- Ph.D. History, George Mason University 2014
- M.A. History, University of North Carolina-Charlotte 2009
- B.A. Secondary Education, Appalachian State University 2005
Early American History; Monetary History; Political History
- The Currency of Empire: Money and Power in Seventeenth-Century English America. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2021.
- “‘Liberty of Conscience is Every Man’s Natural Right’: Historical Background of the First Amendment.” Journal of Policy History 35, no. 4 (October 2023): 435-453.
- “Criminal Prosecution in American History: Private or Public?” South Dakota Law Review 67, no. 2 (2022): 119-193.
- “Currency.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Atlantic History. Ed. Trevor Burnard. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.
- “Review Essay: The History, Essence, and Future of Global Capitalism.” Journal of World History 29, no. 2 (June 2018): 284-295.
- “The Republican Paradox: Liberty, Prosperity, Virtue, and Vice in the American Founding.” Journal of Policy History 29, no. 2 (April 2017): 238-266.
- “Reconstructing Mercantilism: Consensus and Conflict in British Imperial Economy in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries.” The William and Mary Quarterly 73, no. 2 (April 2016): 257-290.
- “'A Peculiar Stampe of Our Owne': The Massachusetts Mint and the Battle over Sovereignty, 1652-1691.” The New England Quarterly 87, no. 3 (September 2014): 490-525.
- “'The Sinke of America': Society in the Albemarle Borderlands of North Carolina, 1663-1729.” North Carolina Historical Review 87, no. 1 (January 2010): 1-27.
Courses
2025 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| HST 109 | United States to 1865 |
| HST 112 | Foundations of Democracy |
| POS 112 | Foundations of Democracy |
2024 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| HST 599 | Thesis |
| HST 109 | United States to 1865 |
| HST 109 | United States to 1865 |
2024 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| HST 330 | Historical Thinking |
| HST 112 | Foundations of Democracy |
| POS 112 | Foundations of Democracy |
2023 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| HST 109 | United States to 1865 |
| HST 109 | United States to 1865 |
| HST 599 | Thesis |
| HST 302 | Studies in History |
2022 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| HST 599 | Thesis |
| HST 112 | Foundations of Democracy |
| POS 112 | Foundations of Democracy |
| HST 790 | Reading and Conference |
| HST 302 | Studies in History |
2022 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| HST 109 | United States to 1865 |
| HST 112 | Foundations of Democracy |
| POS 112 | Foundations of Democracy |
2021 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| HST 302 | Studies in History |
| HST 109 | United States to 1865 |
| HST 109 | United States to 1865 |
| HST 790 | Reading and Conference |
2021 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| HST 109 | United States to 1865 |
| HST 426 | The British Empire |
2020 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| HST 302 | Studies in History |
| HST 112 | Foundations of Democracy |
| POS 112 | Foundations of Democracy |
2020 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| HST 426 | The British Empire |
| HST 330 | Historical Thinking |
- MASSOLIT online lecture series, “Colonial Society and Culture, 1607-1754.” Recorded June 2021. https://www.massolit.io/courses/us-history-colonial-society-and-culture….
- Online lecture series, “History of Money.” Recorded Fall 2020. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLinliDgP9EbScxfH5wxoX8I_HNRSElqZ_.