U.S. History

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Alexander Tabarrok

The Banking Act of 1933, sometimes referred to as the Glass-Steagall Act, separated commercial and investment banking, instituted Federal deposit insurance, 

Laurence M. Vance

The title of the book may initially seem to be an exercise in hyperbole, but such is not the case. How Capitalism Saved America is indeed the untold history of our country.

Mark Thornton

The great value of Charles Adam's book, When in the Course of Human Events: Arguing the Case for Southern Secession, isthat it shows in careful historical detail that slavery did not cause this great tragedy. 

Clifford F. Thies

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,”

M.E. Grenander

To collaborate with an author in perceiving the implied ethical problems he poses and passing a moral judgment on their solution can be, as Wayne B

Carl Watner

The doctrine of natural liberty is ultimately grounded on two premises which are necessary to the understanding of why governments are “crimi

Mark Thornton

The American Revolution restored private and local control over goods such as alcohol and tobacco, but since the period of the Early Republic, the prohibitionist agenda has, with few deviations, continued on this trend of increasing central control.

Ronald Hamowy

The condition of the American medical profession at the close of the Civil War was, in almost every particular, significantly different from that w

Historian Alice Felt Tyler once used the expression “Freedom’s Ferment” to characterize the antebellum period in American history

Murray N. Rothbard

The categories of “right” and “left” have been changing so rapidly in recent years in America that it becomes difficult to