U.S. History

Man and Nature in America

Tags: The Environment, U.S. History, War and Foreign Policy

06/16/1963 • Arthur A. Ekirch Jr.

From the author: I have written Man and Nature in America in the hope of providing today’s readers with some historical perspective on the problem implied in this title. Since I am an historian and not a scientist, I cannot claim expert...

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America’s Great Depression

Tags: Homeschool Resource, Intermediate, Featured, The Fed, U.S. Economy, U.S. History

01/01/1963 • Murray N. Rothbard

This book applies Austrian business cycle theory to understanding the onset of the 1929 Great Depression. Rothbard first summarizes the Austrian theory and offers a criticism of competing theories, including the views of Keynes. Rothbard then...

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The Panic of 1819: Reactions and Policies

Tags: Booms and Busts, U.S. Economy, U.S. History

07/20/1962 • Murray N. Rothbard

The panic of 1819 was America’s first great economic crisis. And this is Murray Rothbard’s masterful account, the first full scholarly book on the topic and still the most definitive. It was his dissertation, published in 1962 but nearly...

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Revolt on the Campus

Tags: U.S. History

05/27/1961 • M. Stanton Evans

From the publisher: Historians may well record the decade of the 1960’s as the era in which conservatism, as a viable political force, finally came into its own. This may appear to be an overly optimistic judgment, since conservatism has been...

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Roosevelt’s Road to Russia

Tags: Big Government, U.S. History, War and Foreign Policy

09/16/1959 • George Crocker

From the author: Randolph Bourne, one of the critical commentators of the Woodrow Wilson period, once wrote that war is like a wild elephant: it carries the rider where it desires, not where he may desire. Perhaps the historian predilected to...

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Men, Motors, and Markets

Tags: The Entrepreneur, U.S. Economy, U.S. History

06/15/1959 • Dean Russell

During the early history of the automobile industry, practically every part of the car was produced by the independent manufacturers of parts. The automobile companies merely assembled the parts into a complete car. And as often as not, it was...

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The Decline of the American Republic

Tags: Big Government, U.S. History

05/27/1955 • John T. Flynn

In 1955, John T. Flynn saw what few others journalist did: the welfare-warfare state conspired to bring down American liberty. The New Deal combined with World War Two had fastened leviathan control over a country born in liberty. This early...

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The American Story

Tags: U.S. Economy, U.S. History

05/27/1955 • Garet Garrett

He was a defender of free enterprise who adored the magnificence of the American genius for progress. He was a champion of business who believed in profiting the old fashioned way. He was a libertarian who deplored the rise of big government. He...

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The Twenty-Year Revolution: from Roosevelt to Eisenhower

Tags: U.S. History, War and Foreign Policy

09/03/1954 • Chesly Manly

From the author: As Thomas Paine wrote in The Crisis, in 1776, “These are times that try men’s souls.” The question then was whether the American revolution could be saved. The·question now is whether the American Republic, born in a patriotic...

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Give Me Liberty

Tags: Biographies, U.S. History, World History

06/07/1954 • Rose Wilder Lane

Rose Wilder Lane in her youth supported the Russian Revolution, but a trip to Russia quickly dispelled her illusions. She realized that the mass politics of socialism necessarily suppressed individual freedom. America was founded on a different...

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