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where can i find the best online archive source for early american pamphlets,newspapers and publications?
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I was reading Doug French's book about the housing collapse and came across the Shiller graph showing historical home values. I'm a self-taught student of economics and don't have the background that others might. I wanted to pick the brains of the Mises community on the housing spike/collapse...
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It seems like they didn't teach us anything about real United States history in school. My teachers were always terribly boring and made us memorize the acronyms of the New Deal programs. I've had to teach myself everything I know about our history, but I always have to learn randomly - and by...
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I am wondering if anyone knows anything about the duties on imports and tonnage which the Union imposed in the summer of 1789 as a result of the first session of Congress, or if anyone has any general knowledge about import/tonnage duties. Specifically, I would like answers to the following questions...
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I am currently doing a dissertation on American foreign policy and at the moment I am reading William Appleman Williams The Tragedy of American Diplomacy . In it, he says that US expansionist policies gained support from industrialists and farmers in an effort to "open" and/or "find"...
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Move to Montana as fast as possible. The Libertarian Party has a Free State Project. After discussions and a poll they selected New Hampshire (pop 1.3 million). After the get 20,000 libertarians to sign up and commit to move to NH, they will be able to elect a libertarian legislature and governor and...
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Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both. Benjamin Franklin A controversial, unpopular, complicated, and still suspicious even to this day as he had recently left Office for the new President elect Barrack Obama to take over. George...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/21/weekinreview/21uchitelle.html Read the article, and let me know what you think.