U.S. History

From Part II of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: “The Origins of the Federal R

From Part IV of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: “The Gold-Exchange Standard i

From Part III of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: “From Hoover to Roosevelt: T

Hutcheson brought to Scottish philosophy a solid belief in natural rights and in the beneficence of nature, writes Murray N.

From Part IV of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: “The Gold-Exchange Standard i

From Part III of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: “From Hoover to Roosevelt: T

From Part V of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: “The New Deal and the Internat

Gold and silver are international commodities, and, when not prohibited by government decree, foreign coins are perfectly capable of serving as sta

Gold and silver are international commodities, and, when not prohibited by government decree, foreign coins are perfectly capable of serving as standard moneys.

Thaddeus Russell’s A Renegade History of the United States is an important new book: a demonstration that rebels and renegades are society’s benefactors. In this revisionist view of American history, you see, there is “an enduring civil war” between these two factions — the “renegades” and the “moral guardians,” whom he also calls the “disciplinarians.”