U.S. History

Why did the South lose the Civil War? Mark Thornton argues Vicksburg—not Gettysburg—was key, revealing how Confederate economic failures sealed their fate.

Hunt Tooley reveals how artillery, arms dealers, and bankers turned war into profitable, prolonged carnage.

Scott Horton explains how US foreign policy disasters threaten peace, prosperity, and freedom.

Tom DiLorenzo exposes the dangerous "Treasury of Virtue" that justifies endless wars and imperialism.

Ilana Mercer addresses Israel’s "Hasbara" myths, exposing harsh truths behind Gaza’s suffering—and the moral complicity of America in enabling atrocities.

The MMT crowd now claims that the monetary history of the US is an example of chartalism. US history is actually an example of the opposite.

There are no “good wars,” rather, there are wars with varying degrees of destructiveness. The American War Between the States was especially destructive, and the scars have not fully healed 160 years after it ended.

The transatlantic slave trade from Africa is a well-known chapter in the history of slavery in the Western Hemisphere, but much lesser known is the enslavement of Native Americans. Many of them were shipped to plantations in the Caribbean where they were worked to death.

Edwin S. Corwin in The President: Office and Powers, 1878-1957 has argued that the Constitution is a tussle for control between the executive and legislature. It is, he claims, “an invitation to struggle for the privilege of directing American foreign policy.”

Have Americans forgotten how to be free? When warfare erupted between American colonists and the British government, the colonists believed that they had God-given rights that protected them against state power. Would that Americans today believed the same thing.