War and Foreign Policy

Ball’s Bluff evolves from a “slight demonstration” into a small-scale battle, and claims the life of one of President Lincoln’s closest personal friends.

Chris Calton details all of the mistakes that were made leading up to The Battle of Ball’s Bluff, setting the stage for a Union catastrophe.

Trump has proposed the "Space Force" as a brand new and costly military branch and bureaucracy. The reaction to his plan helps illustrate the complexity of military politics in Washington.

Presented at the Mises Institute's 2018 Supporters Summit in Auburn, Alabama.

Austrian economics in particular provides the historian with a theoretical apparatus that equips him with the ability to make disembodied statistics tell a coherent and accurate story.

The Lincoln administration does everything it can to ensure that Kentucky is not taken over by secessionists.

Taken all together, defense spending in Fiscal Year 2019 totals more than the state budget of Texas seven times over.

When Virginia decided to join the South, many Unionists in the western portion of the state were opposed to the move.

No organization has more money at its disposal than the US government, which attracts thieves and con men at least in full proportion to its control of wealth.

As the fear of spies and traitors spread through the North, political arrests became commonplace, even in states as far north as Maine.