U.S. History

Ball’s Bluff evolves from a “slight demonstration” into a small-scale battle, and claims the life of one of President Lincoln’s closest personal friends.

Was Thomas Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase an early example of presidential malfeasance?

In this 1971 New York Times editorial, Murray Rothbard described how, under Nixon's "New Economic Policy," "fascism came to America."

Even if we can observe amazing amounts of economic progress in the face of rising government intervention, in a relatively free economy, this can always be attributed to the resilience of the market system, and the power of human innovation and productivity.

Chris Calton details all of the mistakes that were made leading up to The Battle of Ball’s Bluff, setting the stage for a Union catastrophe.

The traditional interpretation of the effects of Andrew Jackson's opposition to the central bank suffers from faulty economy theory.

Presented at the Mises Institute's 2018 Supporters Summit in Auburn, Alabama.

The Lincoln administration does everything it can to ensure that Kentucky is not taken over by secessionists.

The Ron Paul of his era, Richard Overton, in both word and deed, was a fearless man, true to his ideals of justice, without regard for personal consequence.

Randolph Bourne was too much the populist for Sunstein who believed "the people" must be guided by experts, because people are too bewildered by the complexities of it all to be able to choose rationally for themselves.