The galleries provide an alternate way - in addition to the search function found throughout the museum - to easily access materials from every section of the virtual museum and archive on a particular topic.
Visitors do not need to leave the gallery to access any related resources; click on the link and the material you select will be available.
Welcome to the Galleries section of the virtual museum and archive. The galleries are organized chronologically by the date each gallery is opened in the museum, with the most recent gallery listed first.
The Bright Image: The SEC, 1961-1973
Opened December 1, 2007
"Between 1961 and 1973, the SEC faced challenges to its institutional authority on a wide array of complicated and pressing issues. The story of how the SEC addressed those issues would be an uneven one, with setbacks to the SEC's bright image that it had not faced in its previous thirty years of existence." (from the Introduction)
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Fair To All People: The SEC and the Regulation of Insider Trading
Opened November 1, 2006
"The history of SEC efforts to regulate insider trading is a story of administrative resiliency, intellectual flexibility and institutional competence that created the modern system of insider trading enforcement despite the absence of a specific legal definition of the practice." (from the Introduction)
431 Days: Joseph P. Kennedy and the Creation of the SEC
Opened December 1, 2005
"Subsequent SEC chairs wielded the power of an established regulatory agency with varying degrees of success, but only after Kennedy had proven to a nation that the SEC could be a critical source of stability in the constantly changing world of finance." (from the Introduction)
William O. Douglas and the Growing Power of the SEC
Opened December 1, 2005
"While [Douglas's] tenure coincided with great challenges to the emerging authority of the rise of administrative government during the New Deal, his political leadership and activism at the SEC, coupled with his academic brilliance by which he formulated that policy framework, made the SEC the most lasting and successful of all New Deal agencies." (from the Introduction)