Despite the general decline in morals and governance that characterized much of the imperial era, ordinary Romans fared better than you might surmise, at least until the decline overwhelmed them in the late fifth century. Photo: part of the Circus Maximus.

I took an evening course once that proved to be the best investment I ever made. Pictured here is the same model of typewriter that I used for that course. Thank you, Charles Latham Sholes!

In September 1944, General Eisenhower intended for Allied forces to eventually capture Berlin, the Nazi capital. By March 1945, he had changed his mind. Why? This is an essay I wrote 51 years ago as a senior at Grove City College.

Historians generally posit that the Roman welfare state appeared in the last century of the old Republic, beginning with grain subsidies in 123 B.C. But the racket is even older than that, by at least 300 years. Photo credit: Douglas Rissing via iStock.

A new, free eBook from FEE. On Chinese history from a liberty perspective by Lawrence W. Reed and Katrina Gulliver.

The U.S. never threatened or bullied Denmark before it peacefully purchased the Danish West Indies more than a century ago.

Arrested and incarcerated twice by the British for espionage, this Polish immigrant gave all he had to the American cause.