On March 23rd, 1775, Patrick Henry addressed the Second Virginia Convention in favor of mobilizing an armed force against the encroaching British military. Did you know… on March 23rd, 1775, Patrick ...

Before leading Virginia’s militia and becoming its first governor, Patrick Henry stood against British rule, including unjust taxes and restrictive laws. Jonathan Fortier is the director of Lib er tar ...

James Forten published these letters as part of a campaign against a bill which would have had severe negative consequences for the rights of free blacks in Pennsylvania. The black freeman James ...

Timothy Sandefur examines their lives, ideas, and influences in the context of their times. In 1943, three books appeared that changed American politics forever: Isabel Paterson’s The God of the ...

A collection of nine original essays by top philosophers introducing the major moral theories and how they support a libertarian political system. With personal stories, historical anecdotes, ...

Portraits of Liberty investigates the lives and philosophies of thinkers throughout history who argued in favor of a freer world.

Life in early colonial Virginia was as nasty, brutish, and short as it got for seventeenth- century Englishmen. Very few documents remain from common people for the whole of the seventeenth- century, ...

Adam Smith was a Scottish political philosopher and economist, considered one of the forefathers of classical economics and a pioneer of the study of political economy. Smith graduated from Balliol ...

“Copperhead” Democrat Charles Jared Ingersoll argues that both warring sections should embrace a large measure of compromise and conciliation. In our second portion from former Congressman Charles ...