Before leading Virginia’s militia and becoming its first governor, Patrick Henry stood against British rule, including unjust ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Jeannette Rankin was her generation’s most passionate voice against war, a suffragist, reformer, and relentless advocate for peace. Jeannette Rankin, the first woman elected to Congress, remains one ...

Ibn Khaldun was a prominent 14th- century historian famous for being the precursor or even founder, according to some historians, of the social sciences. His contributions to economics highlighted the ...

“The agitation of all reforms is useful and necessary, but…the reform of reforms, is that which will restore to woman her natural right of self- ownership.” Harman’s bristly response argues first that ...

Lloyd supported no institutions or laws, “but an ideal to be realized [as] character will permit by those who freely accept it.” In March 1897, J. William Lloyd, columnist for Moses Harman’s Lucifer, ...