U.S. History

America must reject the false dilemma of managed trade versus regulated trade — and choose free trade.

People aren't spending as much as they used to on automobiles. But there are still plenty of buyers willing to go into debt for a well-equipped car. 

Chris Calton introduces the third season of Historical Controversies.

Rothbard saw at an early stage of his life as a graduate student that the Jacksonian period was a defining one in American history.

Throughout the 1850s, tensions over slavery continued to divide the Northern and Southern states. Finally, after the election of Abraham Lincoln, seven of the fifteen slave states broke away from the Union.

LBJ wanted to be remembered for his Great Society legacy. And he has his wish.

The origins of the Sherman Act provide an important reminder that politicians can be motivated by revenge, greed, hatred, jealously, and spite.

And yet I feel obliged to withhold my approval ... [for] the appropriation of public funds...

It is a common fallacy that if a person is successful in business, they will be a good politician. This is dangerously naive.

In spite of rising debt and worries about long term trends in affordability, new American houses and apartments are larger than they've ever been before.