On September 19, the Hoover Institution held a reception announcing the opening of a new exhibit called “A Tear in the Iron Curtain: The Hungarian Uprising of 1956” to commemorate the affair’s 50th anniversary...
It was 230 years ago that Edward Gibbon published the first volume of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, a work conceived, as he put it, "amidst the ruins of the Capitol" in Rome...
Today, September 29, 2006 is the one-hundred-and-twenty-fifth anniversary of the birth of Ludwig von Mises, economist and social philosopher, who passed away in 1973...