U.S. History

A case study of an agency that never stops expanding in its budget and power, despite failures all around. 

MetLife is under fire for doing exactly what insurance companies are supposed to do: matching risk with premiums. 

John Locke's great Second Treatise of Government was the decisive influence on the writing of the Declaration of Independence. Here are crucial excerpts.

Professor Jaffa has set himself a difficult task. He presents Abraham Lincoln as a champion of freedom for all. Not for Honest Abe the virulent racist sentiments of his contemporaries about blacks.

Justus Doenecke's careful study of the opponents of American entry into World War II makes evident that the noninterventionists had a clearer grasp of essential truths about American foreign policy than their eager-for-war opponents.

This remarkable new book, published by the Mises Institute and edited by John Denson, is the first full-scale revisionist treatment of the American presidency. This is the history that civics class hid from you.

Citing railroads, the TVA, and interstate highways, Michael Kelly of The Atlantic Monthly says government has done wonders for us. Tibor Machan raises the question: At what cost?

There are no good American history textbooks on the market. I've looked. We non-leftists have to settle for the least bad one we can find. A number of my friends told me a year ago that Tindall and Shi's America: A Narrative History was the least bad. So, I've used it this semester for my survey course covering the period from Reconstruction to the present.

Hollywood really knows how to blow things up, whether it be bombs doing it to battleships or a script accomplishing the same thing to historical fact. "Pearl Harbor," reviewed by Lawrence Reed.