U.S. History

Dr. Gordon provides recommended readings for understanding the Cold War. Communist totalitarianism did not necessitate an aggressive foreign policy.

Welfare and Old Age in Europe and North America is a fascinating account of the rise of the welfare state in continental Europe and the U.K. The inclusion of North America in its title is misleading because it certainly does not discuss the mutual-aid-to-welfare-state transitions of Canada or Mexico but only offers a theory in one contribution as to why mandatory health insurance failed to be enacted in the U.S. early in the twentieth century.

The surprise Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, is regarded by most persons who recall it at all as an isolated dramatic episode,

The advantage of The War in Vietnam (the controversial Republican White Paper Prepared by the staff of the Senate Republican Policy Commit

John Lukacs indicates that the roots of the Cold War are to be found in the beginnings of World War II.

The cataclysm of Pearl Harbor occurred twenty-five years ago, and yet the average American, bemused by official propaganda, still thinks of Pearl a

The anti-imperialist American youth of today are, without realizing it.

One of the most perceptive and felicitous writers of the Old Right was the doughty and fiercely independent Garet Garrett, who, during his long car

In the fall of 1965, National Review celebrated its 10th anniversary, and part of the record of its orgy of self-congratulation may be found in its

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