U.S. History

This paper tracks the economic and political developments in the state of Kentucky that led up to the murder, trial, and execution constituting “The Kentucky Tragedy,”

From Mutual Aid is not, nor does it intend to be, a comprehensive study demonstrating the superiority of private social welfare efforts over government programs.

Couch and Shughart’s book brings together a number of public-choice studies by other authors which have appeared in various journals, but have never been formally connected to each other in a single book. 

During the late nineteenth century, when silver agitation threatened the gold standard in the United States, gold bonds offered investors some protection from the uncertainties concerning the monetary standard in the United States.

It is important to note that the economic theory of war does not necessarily displace the historical explanations that rest on such factors as internal dissension, a failure of leadership or diplomacy

This paper will present a radical libertarian analysis of the War of 1861-65; as such, it will disagree in many ways with existing interpretations.

On October 29, 1929, the roof fell in on the booming American economy.

The literature of American legal history is primarily a history of federal and state governments, creating the false impression that these governme

The early conservation movement in the United States was initiated by Theodore Roosevelt in 1908 when he called together a conference of state gove

This paper by Carl Watner discusses the property rights of Native Americans.

Volume 7, Number 1 (1983)