One evening in 1890, Sam Johnson, a lanky Confederate veteran with dark hair and a friendly demeanor, attended a meeting of the Gillespie County Farmers’ Alliance in Fredericksburg. The 51-year-old ...

2 political scientists at Princeton help revive debate on how European liberals of centuries past viewed colonialism and imperialism It is one of the most troubling puzzles in the history of political ...

While classical liberalism is preferable to socialism and interventionism, it is, at best, a halfway house to total freedom.

As a libertarian, I feel compelled to take issue with John Lukacs’s “The Triumph and Collapse of Liberalism” (The Chronicle Review, December 10). If Lukacs would go back about a hundred years earlier, ...

Histories of the idea of liberalism usually begin in the seventeenth century with the philosopher taken to be its patron saint, John Locke. In the aftermath of the wars of religion, the story goes, ...

I had the chance to meet a scholar recently, a woman from Norway. I went to hear her talk about a historical figure I’ve written about on this site before — Hans Nielsen Hauge (pronounced “HOW-geh”), ...

When Adolph Harnack based his interpretation of Christian history upon the principle that the Gospel, in any time and place, must have a “contemporary integument,” his principle was sound though his ...