Dr. Joseph S. Moore is a historian and author of the national bestselling book, How to Get Rich in American History: 300 Years of Financial Advice That Worked (& Didn’t), where he chronicles all the wise (and weird) things Americans tried to do to get ahead for three centuries. His is also an investor, who went from a modest professor’s salary to funding a tech startup, buying land on the moon, founding a cryptocurrency, and owning dozens of investment properties. He previously served as Associate Professor and Chair of the Social Sciences Department of Gardner-Webb University in North Carolina, has been a Visiting Scholar at the University of Notre Dame and at Queens University Belfast, and received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He graduated from Erskine Seminary (2005) and Anderson University (2000).

He lives outside of Atlanta, Georgia. His other writings have appeared in The New York Times, MarketWatch, Fast Company, and Oxford University Press.