History

This self-made immigrant helped make the Revolution possible, then laid the foundation for America’s essentially capitalist financial policies.

By refusing to give in to injustice, Parks sparked not only the Montgomery bus boycott but the American Civil Rights movement as such, which would go on to topple the legal support of racial discrimination in the United States.

Some call national parks “America’s best idea.” In truth, public lands of any type are antithetical to what is truly America’s best idea: individual rights.

Ka‘ahumanu overthrew Hawaii's brutal religion. Tragically, that was not enough. The Hawaiian people, like all people, needed the insights of philosophy.

This little-known founder not only articulated the ideas of America's revolution, he was intimately involved in putting those ideas into practice.

November 9 and the opening of East German borders will forever mark a triumph for freedom and a reminder of the horrors of collectivism.

Ammous places Bitcoin in a broad historical context and makes a good case that it has the potential to be the next stage in the evolution of sound money.

Well-read intellectuals, Greek philosophy, and atheism are what made America great. So says Matthew Stewart.

Thousands of students who had been written off as “unteachable” were able to lead meaningful, productive lives because one woman refused to give up on them.

There is no story quite like that of Sequoyah, who almost single-handedly invented a written form for the language of the largest tribe in America.