U.S. History

Recorded at the Mises Institute, May 1994.

Recorded at the Mises Institute, May 1994.

Recorded at the 2003 Supporters Summit: Prosperty, War, and Depression.

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Recorded at the 2003 Supporters Summit: Prosperty, War, and Depression.

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Recorded at the Mises Institute, May 1994.

Recorded at the Reassessing the Presidency seminar; March 2004. (47:26)

Several court cases must be mentioned. Each makes a point. Plessey v. Ferguson: Segregation Separate but equal is ok.  Brown v. Board of Education: Separate schools are inherently unequal. Green v. County School Board of New Kent County: Freedom of choice desegregation plan unconstitutional.

Recorded at the Mises Institute, May 1994.

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.

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.