U.S. History

The big-business-connected creators of Social Security sought to use the system to punish their competitors in the small-business sector. 

Recent media coverage suggests more government spending and more government control is the only "solution" to rising suicide rates in America.  

Because they have guaranteed income through taxes, competition among political jurisdictions is not like competition among private firms.

After the Pratt Street Riot, President Lincoln and General Scott take more drastic measures to secure Maryland for the Union.

The US is often criticized for supposedly offering a lower quality of life than Europe. But far more Europeans migrate to the US than the other way around. 

Baltimore citizens resist the movement of the Union troops, leading to the first blood spilled in combat during the Civil War.

Lincoln's disregard for rights of due process was once highly controversial. And the old "we're at war" trick wasn't seen as a convincing excuse. 

There is good reason to study Keynesianism: It helps us understand what the policymakers in government are likely to do in any given circumstance.

It is unfortunate that a scholar as careful as Robert Skidelsky has chosen to downplay the historical reality of the failure of central banking.

After Lincoln’s call for 75,000 volunteers to suppress the “Southern Rebellion,” the Upper South states reconsider their decision to remain in the Union.