U.S. History

Not every neighborhood resident likes the trick-or-treat tradition of Halloween. But an answer can be found in a better adherence to property rights.

The peddler was the middle class man who prided himself on his initiative, self-reliance, independence and, above all, his integrity.

What politicians and pundits of the Clinton variety really want is a return to the days of the Era of Consensus of the 1950s and 60s when uncivil opposition was unthinkable.

The Congressional Republicans hunt for a scapegoat to take the blame for the Union defeat at Ball's Bluff. 

Patrick Newman on what Murray Rothbard can still teach us today.

There's a long history of deliberately producing terrible scholarship with the intent of showing how arbitrary, political, and incompetent editors and publishers are.

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.