U.S. History

After months of growing tension between the United States and Britain, a single event almost plunges the two countries into war.

Since each person votes for different reasons, we can't morally say that the outcome of an election binds people to any specific law or policy.

William Seward's repeated diplomatic blunders cause Britain to send troops to Canada in preparation for a possible war with the United States. 

The peddler was the middle class man who prided himself on his initiative, self-reliance, independence and, above all, his integrity.

Not every neighborhood resident likes the trick-or-treat tradition of Halloween. But an answer can be found in a better adherence to property rights.

What politicians and pundits of the Clinton variety really want is a return to the days of the Era of Consensus of the 1950s and 60s when uncivil opposition was unthinkable.

The Congressional Republicans hunt for a scapegoat to take the blame for the Union defeat at Ball's Bluff. 

There's a long history of deliberately producing terrible scholarship with the intent of showing how arbitrary, political, and incompetent editors and publishers are.

Patrick Newman on what Murray Rothbard can still teach us today.

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.