U.S. History

Not everything needs to turn into a nationwide systemic problem when the federal government is a political mess. We ought to decentralize now to limit the damage the feds can do.

In 1944, Roosevelt revealed that the original Bill of Rights had “proved inadequate to assure us equality in the pursuit of happiness.” So he proposed to replace it with something far worse.

Chris Calton details the incredible life of the Swedish engineer who created the Union's first iron warship.

The Gilded Age's enormous gains in incomes and standards of living showed what individuals were capable of creating when the government was shackled.

The ironclad CSS Virginia ushers in a new age of naval warfare.

Neoliberalism is a not a free-market or libertarian ideology. It's really just a throwback to the mercantilism of old, in which government-sponsored monopolies push their agendas on everyone else.

We’re supposed to think it’s perfectly normal that Washington DC bureaucrats decide whether or not you can use an outhouse toilet 2,500 miles from DC. Because it’s in a “national” park.

The Confederates begin their strategy to combat the superior Union Navy by creating a new technologically superior warship. 

General Dwight D. Eisenhower, chief among the naysayers, said, “I was against (use of the atomic bomb) on two counts. First, the Japanese were ready to surrender and it wasn’t necessary to hit them with that awful thing."

Chris Calton details an often overlooked victory by the Union.