James J. Martin (September 18, 1916 - April 4, 2004) was an American historian. He was educated at the University of New Hampshire and the University of Michigan, earning a Ph.D. in history in 1949. September 18 is the 261st day of the year (262nd in leap years). ... 1916 is a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January-February January 1 -The first successful blood transfusion using blood that had been stored and cooled. ... April 4 is the 94th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (95th in leap years). ... 2004(MMIV) is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A historian is a person who studies history. ... The University of New Hampshire is a state university in Durham, New Hampshire (USA). ... University of Michigan, Ann Arbor The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor is a public coeducational university in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. ... 1949 is a common year starting on Saturday. ...

He is best known for his work on the history of American individualist anarchism, Men Against the State, first published in 1953. His 1964 book American Liberalism and World Politics, 1931-1941 is also well known. Josiah Warren is the first American individualist anarchist Individualist anarchism, while being advocated among some European philosophers in various forms, has a distinctive flavor in The United States of America. ... 1953 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... 1964 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

He was a close associate of historian Harry Elmer Barnes. Martin's own views were libertarian and individualist anarchist. He was also an egoist influenced by Max Stirner, and rejected the natural rights views held by some other libertarians. His work was praised by liberal historian William Appleman Williams, libertarian theorist Murray Rothbard, and others. After a teaching career at several universities, he took a job teaching at Robert LeFevre's Rampart College, assuming it would be a full-time job. This was not the case as Rampart College was not yet really a college but only a series of workshop/lectures on libertarian political economy. This led to an eventual falling out between Martin and LeFevre when Rampart College went out of business three years after Martin was hired, with Martin charging LeFevre with a breach of his five year contract. This article deals with the libertarianism as defined in America and several other nations. ... In politics, individualist anarchism is a variety of anarchism that emphasises the importance of the individual. ... Egoist may mean an egoist, someone with a philosophical self-involvement amounting to egoism (who may or may not be an egotist, i. ... Johann Kaspar Schmidt (October 25, 1806 – June 26, 1856), better known as Max Stirner (the nom de plume he adopted from a schoolyard nickname he had acquired as a child because of his high brow [Stirn]), German philosopher, who ranks as one of the literary grandfathers of nihilism, existentialism and... Natural rights are the rights to life, liberty, and property. ... William Appleman Williams (1921-1990, born in Atlantic, Iowa) was one of the 20th centurys most prominent historians of American diplomacy. ... Murray Newton Rothbard Murray Newton Rothbard (March 2, 1926 - January 7, 1995) was an American economist and political theorist belonging to the Austrian School of Economics who helped define modern libertarianism and anarcho-capitalism. ... Robert LeFevre (1911-1986) was a libertarian businessman and radio personality. ...

In 1968 after Rampart College folded, Martin founded the small Ralph Myles Publishing, which reprinted Men Against the State and brought a series of classic anarchist writings back into print, most notably No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority by Lysander Spooner. Martin also was the author of books on anti-war subjects including Revisionist Viewpoints, a collection of anti-World War II essays, and An American Adventure in Bookburning, a history of censorship in the United States during World War I. 1968 was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... Anarchism is a generic term describing various political philosophies and social movements that advocate the elimination of hierarchy and imposed authority. ... Lysander Spooner (January 19, 1808 - May 14, 1887) was an American political philosopher, abolitionist, and legal theorist of the 19th century. ... Anti war protest in Melbourne, Australia, 2003 Anti_war is a name that is widely adopted by any social movement or person that seeks to end or oppose a future or current war. ... Censorship is the use of governmental power to control speech and other forms of human expression. ...

Starting in 1979 Martin began to associate with the Institute for Historical Review, a holocaust revisionist group, severely undercutting, in the minds of some, his previous credibility as a historian. One of his last books was The Man Who Invented Genocide: The Public Career and Consequences of Raphael Lemkin published in 1984. This page refers to the year 1979. ... The Institute for Historical Review (IHR), founded in 1978, is dedicated to historical revisionism. ... Richard Harwoods Did Six Million Really Die? Holocaust denial is the claim that the mainstream historical version of the Holocaust is either highly exaggerated or completely falsified. ... 1984 is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

External links

• James J. Martin: The Passing of a Great Historian By Mark Weber, Director, Institute for Historical Review
• James J. Martin, 1916 – 2004 by Jeff Riggenbach