War Socialism and the Confederate Defeat
The Confederate government's turn toward war socialism helped seal its fate.
U.S. History
Displaying 1881 - 1890 of 3723
The Pottawatomie Massacre
In response to the Caning of Charles Sumner, radical John Brown took matters into his own hands by murdering five pro-slavery settlers.
1.3. The Attempts to Form Cartels
From Chapter 1, "Railroads: The First Big Business and the Failure of the Cartels".
6.2. The Final Collapse: 1896
From Chapter 6, "1896: The Collapse of the Third Party System and of Laissez-faire Politics".
8.2. Harvey W. Wiley and the Pure Food and Drug Act
From Chapter 8, "Theodore Roosevelt: The First Progressive, Part II".
9.7. Allied Group: The American Association for Labor
From Chapter 9, "The National Civic Federation: Big Business Organized for Progressivism".
14.1. The Origins of the Federal Reserve: The Dissatisfaction
From Chapter 14, "The Federal Reserve as a Cartelization Device: The Early Years, 1913–1930".
