U.S. History

From the session on “The Changing and Permanent War Parties,” presented at the Austrian Economics Research Conference.

From the session on “The Changing and Permanent War Parties,” presented at the Austrian Economics Research Conference.

In recent years, we’ve seen more and more Austrian-tinged economic analysis. There has been tremendous growth in interest in Austrian economics among financial professionals.

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.