U.S. History

It's frightening to see the persistent lack of insight shown by policymakers and financial media on the 2008 financial crisis.

Included in John C. Frémont’s declaration of Martial Law is the first emancipation proclamation of the war.

In the early years of the United States, legal systems were far more localized and flexible. But elites preferred consistency over flexibility, and the rich could afford the more bureaucratic legal institutions that ordinary people could not. 

Confederate and Union forces fight on Bloody Hill, and the Battle of Wilson’s Creek comes to an end. 

More than twenty years after his death, Rothbard is proving that he still has much to teach us.

Chris Calton recounts one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War.

The origins of the Second Amendment tell us it's impossible to be both pro-military and pro-second-amendment at the same time.

How the legal doctrine of prosecutorial immunity creates a “lemons” problem in criminal courts through moral hazard.

Union forces pursue the Missouri secessionists to the southwest corner of the state.

With printing of the Continental notes in 1775, Webster feared people would think you could finance the Revolutionary War by printing paper money. We should have listened!