U.S. History

Another outstanding book from the pen of Forrest McDonald, reviewed by Joseph Stromberg, debunks the historical claims of the consolidationists. 

Deregulation during his presidency actually laid the groundwork for the current prosperity, says William Anderson. 

New anti-gun book reveals the class hatred felt by intellectuals for a broad section of the American people, says Joseph Stromberg. 

30 years after Nixon closed the gold window, it's time to make the dollar convertible again, argues Greg Kaza.

Charles Adams manifests in this excellent book a rare talent-he asks intelligent historical questions. Many today portray the Civil War as a struggle to end slavery. 

My first thought upon gazing upon this site (Mt. Rushmore) was why anyone would mar perfectly good granite with the faces of Roosevelt and Lincoln. Although Washington and Jefferson committed their own grievous errors while serving as chief executive of the central government, their sins were nothing next to those executed by Theodore Roosevelt and Dishonest Abe.

The Cold War was and is hugely expensive. The full economic cost of any policy must be considered before lending moral and financial support to it, argues Chris Westley. 

The jury verdicts looting tobacco companies and exonerating the federal government at Waco are both contrary to the rule of law. 

H.L. Mencken (1880-1956) wrote this translation in the days during and after World War I. Woodrow Wilson's wartime central planning, which led to arrests of businessmen and other dissenters, caused him to wonder what happened to the ideals of the American Revolution. Perhaps the language of the original Declaration was too anachronistic for modern ears? He offered his own translation into American dialect.

Pundits and politicians, following innumerable scholars for 150 years, will twist and mangle the text to discern some other meaning from the document besides the obvious one.