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Liberty Chronicles

Join host Dr. Anthony Comegna on a series of libertarian explorations into the past. Liberty Chronicles combines innovative libertarian thinking about history with specialist interviews, primary and s... Read more

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Ep. 65: Was Frederick Douglass a Libertarian?

Ep. 65: Was Frederick Douglass a Libertarian?

Timothy Sandefur joins us this week to discuss how Frederick Douglass and his beliefs do not align perfectly to today’s ... Read more

7 Aug 2018

42mins

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Ep. 89: What did the Civil War Smell Like? with Mark Smith

Ep. 89: What did the Civil War Smell Like? with Mark Smith

All history is a string of sense perceptions linked together by individual minds in meaningful patterns we call moments,... Read more

15 Jan 2019

44mins

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Ep. 67: More Creative Historical Thinking

Ep. 67: More Creative Historical Thinking

Our conversation about how all history is revisionist and open to creativity with Michael Douma continues this week. Dou... Read more

21 Aug 2018

36mins

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Ep. 98: The Civil War as Corporatist Conquest

Ep. 98: The Civil War as Corporatist Conquest

It is a mistake to think of the Civil War a just a conflict between slavery and freedom. Planters and industrialists wer... Read more

19 Mar 2019

22mins

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Ep. 94: Was the Civil War a Libertarian Moment?

Ep. 94: Was the Civil War a Libertarian Moment?

We have a tendency to treat the past as some sort of ideal world where historical actors played out their ideal scenario... Read more

19 Feb 2019

29mins

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Ep. 83: Who Killed Jefferson(ianism)?

Ep. 83: Who Killed Jefferson(ianism)?

Southerners strived to protect slavery as thoroughly as possible. In order to do that, they embraced a pragmatic ideolog... Read more

4 Dec 2018

26mins

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Ep. 12: Bacon's Rebellion & the Invention of Race

Ep. 12: Bacon's Rebellion & the Invention of Race

Few contemporary or historical accounts of Bacon’s rebellion agree in every particular about the movement’s motivations ... Read more

18 Jul 2017

20mins

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Ep. 88: The Secession Conventions

Ep. 88: The Secession Conventions

We dive into the secession winter of 1860-1861 when politicians sacrificed unity and stability for personal power. The s... Read more

8 Jan 2019

29mins

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Ep. 66: Creative Historical Thinking, with Michael Douma, Part One

Ep. 66: Creative Historical Thinking, with Michael Douma, Part One

Michael Douma joins us for the first part of a two-part series to discuss how we see the past as as an interpretative hi... Read more

14 Aug 2018

27mins

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Ep. 100: Quakertarianism, with Caleb Brown

Ep. 100: Quakertarianism, with Caleb Brown

For our 100th episode we interviewed Caleb Brown to gain a better understanding of how Quakerism aligns with libertarian... Read more

2 Apr 2019

29mins

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Ep. 72: There's No Excuse for Slavery (Updated)

Ep. 72: There's No Excuse for Slavery (Updated)

This is a updated version of “There’s No Excuse for Slavery” which was released on July 3rd, 2018. Enjoy!The planters of... Read more

19 Sep 2018

28mins

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Ep. 31: The Jefferson Years and Mr. Madison’s War, with Kevin Gutzman

Ep. 31: The Jefferson Years and Mr. Madison’s War, with Kevin Gutzman

Shownotes:Kevin Gutzman is a New York Times best-selling author and professor of history at Western Connecticut State Un... Read more

5 Dec 2017

33mins

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Ep. 41: What's a Loco-Foco?

Ep. 41: What's a Loco-Foco?

The conspirators fully expected Tammany regulars would play whatever dirty tricks necessary to maintain control over the... Read more

13 Feb 2018

19hr 2mins

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Ep. 97: Resisting Leviathan, with Nicholas Mosvick

Ep. 97: Resisting Leviathan, with Nicholas Mosvick

Anthony interviews Nicholas Mosvick to discuss the issue of conscription during the Civil War and its’ lasting impact. D... Read more

12 Mar 2019

32mins

Ranked #15

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Ep. 73: The First Republicans

Ep. 73: The First Republicans

All the way from the 1770s to the 1850s, Americans had plenty of political disagreements, but nothing ever seriously dis... Read more

25 Sep 2018

25mins

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Ep. 69: Van Buren - Friend or Foe? with Jeff Hummel

Ep. 69: Van Buren - Friend or Foe? with Jeff Hummel

Jeff Hummel joins our lengthy debate about who Van Buren really was as a person and as a President. Hummel argues that V... Read more

4 Sep 2018

42mins

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Ep. 81: Spooner & The Secret Six, with Phil Magness

Ep. 81: Spooner & The Secret Six, with Phil Magness

Phil Magness joins us this week to teach the radical nature of Lysander Spooner. Spooner’s legal career started in an ap... Read more

20 Nov 2018

46mins

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Ep. 79: Compromising Compromisers, with Stephen Maizlish

Ep. 79: Compromising Compromisers, with Stephen Maizlish

Stephen Maizlish sifted through 1700-1800 different documents and speeches from the 19th century in order to recreate an... Read more

6 Nov 2018

38mins

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Ep. 87: Profiles in Locodom: Fernando Wood

Ep. 87: Profiles in Locodom: Fernando Wood

Nicholas Mosvick joins us to detail the life of Fernando Wood and how he was the mayor of New York who wished the state ... Read more

1 Jan 2019

37mins

Ranked #20

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Ep. 44: Make America Young Again

Ep. 44: Make America Young Again

The Young Americans were New York’s next generation of artists, intellectuals, and activists, and reformers, many of who... Read more

6 Mar 2018

23mins

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