U.S. History

Recorded at the Mises Institute, 7–8 October 2005. 

Lew Rockwell writes: "I was invited to speak at a peace march and rally in Birmingham, Alabama, sponsored by the Alabama Peace and Justice Coalition, and gladly accepted the offer to speak against the war in Iraq."

Starting this year, writes Gary Galles, every educational institution receiving federal aid must teach about the U.S. Constitution on the September 17 anniversary of its signing. 

They just don't make statesmen the way they used to, writes Doug French. Every week a new revelation comes to light about some senator or congressman's ethical transgressions.

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Thomas DiLorenzo has written a masterpiece, says Laurence M. Vance. We have not only a great reference source, but a great weapon in our arsenal against all varieties of socialism, interventionism, and anticapitalism.

As they say in the South, writes Chris Westley, you can stick a fork in organized labor. Its implosion is a reminder that, in the long run, market forces trump state power.

The guiding motif of what we might call the "old American Right" was a deep and passionate commitment to individual liberty, and to the belief that this liberty, in the personal and the economic spheres, was gravely menaced by the growth and power of the Leviathan state, at home and abroad.

John V. Denson discusses the world-changing events that happened between January and June 1919: disastrous decisions that resulted in creating a platform for Hitler to rise in Germany, the Second World War, and beyond.

Lew Rockwell writes on how to square universal rights with radical decentralism in politics and globalization in economics.

The authors of Time on the Cross rewrote the history of antebellum slavery and ushered in the cliometric revolution.