U.S. History
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Teddy Roosevelt and the Origins of the Modern Welfare-Warfare State
Recorded at the Reassessing the Presidency seminar; March 2004. (31:59)
The Impossibility of Limited Government: The Prospects for a Second American Revolution
Recorded at the Reassessing the Presidency seminar; March 2004. (47:26)
The Trouble With Washington
Recorded at the 2003 Supporters Summit: Prosperty, War, and Depression.
(51:13)
War and Economics in 19th-Century America
Recorded at the 2003 Supporters Summit: Prosperty, War, and Depression.
(30:02)
Southern Secession and Reconstruction
You can’t take Southern secession seriously because of slavery. Illinois is worth pondering because Lincoln supported the laws against blacks because he did not think that free blacks could ever mix with whites. A superior position was assigned to the white race. Lincoln meant every word. He voted against every suggested improvement for blacks. He saw universal emancipation as impossible.
Puritan Revolution and Republicanism
The transforming ideology of the American Revolution consists of four elements: liberalism, republicanism, English law, and Protestantism. Liberalism was developed by the Levellers, saying that natural rights could be evolved from natural law.
