History and Liberty
June 23 — June 27, 2008

History and Liberty, one of our new seminars, is a week-long intellectual feast centered on the battle between
liberty and power throughout history. Topics will include the American Founding, Civil War, the Great Depression,
as well as European and World history.

History and Liberty Recordings

Preview some of our faculty, topics, and a tentative schedule:

Schedule (click link for pdf)

Robert Higgs
Introduction to Liberty and Power
War, Economy, and Liberty in the 20th Century

Jeffrey Hummel
Radicalism of American Revolution
One Nation under Bigger Government: The Civil War
Slavery in America

David Beito
The State Against Blacks
Civil Liberties in Wartime

Sheldon Richman
Articles of Confederation and the Constitution

Burton Folsom
Myth of the Robber Barons
FDR and the Great Depression

Andrew Morriss
Why Does Gasoline Cost So Much?
The Benefits of Regulatory Competition and Offshore Financial Centers

Stephen Davies
Globalization in Historical Perspective
From Paraguay to WWI

David Hart
Thinking the Unthinkable
Class Theories before Karl Marx

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