U.S. History

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Walter Block

Given Dwight Lee’s stalwart free enterprise credentials, it is more than passingly curious that the title of his 1998 Presidential Address to the S

Kevin R. C. Gutzman

This article will describe the series of events that launched John C.

Walter Block Thomas J. DiLorenzo

James Buchanan and Gordon Tullock are widely credited with creating the Public Choice School.

Raymond James Krohn

In 1844 Massachusetts resident Lysander Spooner (1808–1887) advertised in the public press the establishment of the American Letter Mail Company.

Luigi Marco Bassani

Surveys of libertarian-leaning individuals in America show that the intellectual champions they venerate the most are Thomas Jefferson and Ayn Rand

H. Lee Cheek, Jr.

During the sectional crisis, the overwhelming practical and theoretical inheritance that nourished the Southern worldview was built upon an appreci

Jeffrey Rogers Hummel

In this article, Jeffrey Rogers Hummel reviews Thomas E. Woods, Jr’s The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History.

Joseph R. Stromberg

In 1792, Thomas Paine sounded a cautionary note about the economics of empire:

Thomas J. DiLorenzo

All radical schemes to reconstruct the South entailed some more or less permanent expansion of central state activity and expenditures.