U.S. History

The Great American Land Bubble: The Amazing Story of Land-Grabbing, Speculations, and Booms from Colonial Days to the Present Times

Tags: Booms and Busts, U.S. Economy, U.S. History

08/12/1932 • A. M. Sakolski

Those who lived through the huge speculative real estate bubble of the 1990s through 2008 might have imagined that it was unprecedented. Not so. Far from it! This definitive history of land speculation provides a well-documented but hugely...

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The Bubble that Broke the World

Tags: Booms and Busts, U.S. Economy, U.S. History

06/01/1932 • Garet Garrett

What caused the stock-market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression that followed? This book blows away the conventional interpretations, not only in its contents but that the book exists at all. The Bubble that Broke the World was written in...

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Jefferson

Tags: Biographies, U.S. History

06/15/1926 • Albert Jay Nock

Here is Albert Jay Nock’s classic study on the life and thought of Thomas Jefferson, a book which draws out points other biographers have missed: his radicalism, his opposition to all centralized government, his attachment to liberty and...

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The Blue Wound

Tags: U.S. History, War and Foreign Policy, World History

01/01/1921 • Garet Garrett

Who started World War One? That is the all-encompassing question that Garet Garrett asks in this classic book from 1921. The amazing thing about this book — apart from its insightfulness into what or who really started World War One, and Garrett...

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How Diplomats Make War

Tags: U.S. History, War and Foreign Policy, World History

11/15/1915 • Francis Neilson

Francis Neilson (1867–1961) was a member of the British Parliament, one of the last truly educated British aristocrats, a colleague and friend of Albert Jay Nock’s, and an amazing historian and stylist. He is also the author of this historic...

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Tariff History of the United States

Tags: Taxes and Spending, U.S. Economy, U.S. History

06/15/1890 • F.W. Taussig

The Mises Institute has completely re-typeset F.W. Taussig’s definitive work on the tariffs of the 19th century in the United States, a history that in some sense is the most important ever written because it was so decisive in leading to the...

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A History of American Currency

Tags: Booms and Busts, Money and Banks, U.S. Economy, U.S. History

06/07/1874 • William Graham Sumner

The author, William Graham Sumner, was the great sociologist of late 19th century America, but also a wise observer of economic conditions. In 1874, in the midst of another debate about the future of the American monetary system, he offered this...

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A Short History of Paper Money and Banking in the United States

Tags: Money and Banks, U.S. History

01/01/1835 • William M. Gouge

“The Bank was saved, and the people were ruined.” So says William Gouge (1796–1863), one of the best political economists of the American 19th century. He is speaking of the panic of 1819, but his sentence could sum up the whole thesis of this...

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Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy

Tags: Money and Banking, U.S. History, War and Foreign Policy

• Murray N. Rothbard

“Bankers are inherently inclined toward statism.” A century of American foreign policy, told through the men who financed it.

The Panic of 1819: Reactions and Policies

Tags: Money and Banking, Booms and Busts, U.S. History

• Murray N. Rothbard

America's first great depression came with no obvious culprit and forced a generation to invent the arguments we are still having about money, debt