U.S. History

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

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

If, as Richard O.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The War Between the States has been a source of controversy for some time among libertarians.