This course traces conservatism, classical liberalism, and libertarianism as evolving traditions shaped by distinct historical settings rather than fixed political labels. Beginning with British, French, and American arguments about inherited institutions, constitutional limits, individual rights, toleration, property, and trade, it follows their development through nineteenth-century revolution, reform, nationalism, industrialization, slavery, and mass politics. The course then examines early twentieth-century responses to progressivism, concentrated power, industrial culture, war, and modernity in economic, agrarian, humanist, and literary thought. Postwar lessons explore traditionalism, anticommunism, free-market economics, individualist libertarianism, fusionism, neoconservatism, and the Libertarian Party alongside the institutions that organized these movements. Later lectures connect ideas with religious activism, Thatcher and Reagan, paleoconservatism, Ron Paul’s campaigns, and continuing disputes over intervention, decentralization, immigration, intellectual property, religion, and culture.