U.S. History

Mises Institute 50 Great Pioneers of American Industry

Two world wars have converted the libertarian American dream of pre-1914 days into a nightmare of fear, regimentation, destruction, insecurity, inflation, and ultimate insolvency.

Barnes was the Complete Historian; and it was the historical approach that informed his work in all the other social science disciplines in which he was so remarkably productive: sociology, criminology, religion, economics, current affairs, and social thought.

We came to realize that a cadre with no organization and with no continuing program of 'internal education' and reinforcement is bound to defect and melt away in the course of working with far stronger allies.

Murray Rothbard discusses a turning point in American ideological history, through events in his own life:

This is going to be an unfair review — I hope readers will not say to themselves, "as usual." Brian Doherty has done a remarkable amount of research for his book, which endeavors to present a comprehensive history of American libertarianism.

Paul Gottfried's excellent book lends strong support to a controversial claim of Murray Rothbard's. In his The Betrayal of the American Right , Rothbard argued that the

After the death of Taft and as the Eisenhower foreign policy began to take on the frozen Dullesian lineaments of permanent mass armament and the th

The philosophical doctrine of equality gives no more ground for the assumption that all men are educable than it does for the assumption that all men are 6 feet tall.

As far as I know, there does not exist a university or an undergraduate college, in the traditional and proper sense, anywhere in the country.

This scathing address delivered by Dr. Jordan at the Thirtieth Annual Meeting of the National Industrial Conference Board, 16 May 1946, one year after the end of World War II.