U.S. History

The Forging of American Socialism

Tags: U.S. History

06/16/1953 • Howard Quint

From the author: Today the United States remains the last great citadel of capitalistic democracy. An organized and institutionalized American socialist movement as such, moreover, is virtually a matter of past history. Of course, some...

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The Mainspring of Human Progress

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

03/15/1953 • Henry Grady Weaver

What has capitalism contributed to civilization? It made it. And nowhere has it thrived so beautifully as in America, the country that threw off the static old world to make a new one rooted in progress and individualism. With incredible...

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Back Door to War: The Roosevelt Foreign Policy 1933-1941

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

04/12/1952 • Charles Callan Tansill

Charles Callan Tansill , one of the foremost American diplomatic historians of the twentieth century, argues that FDR wished to involve the United States in the European War that began in September 1939. When he proved unable to do so directly...

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The Wild Wheel

Tags: Media and Culture, U.S. History

02/01/1952 • Garet Garrett

No one, but no one, tells the story of the Ford Motor Company like Garet Garrett. He loved machines and technology, and the markets that create and distribute them. He loved the car and its transforming effect on society. And he lived through it...

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While You Slept

Tags: Media and Culture, U.S. History, War and Foreign Policy, World History

11/01/1951 • John T. Flynn

The amazing step-by-step, person-by-person story of how the American left wing took over our most influential media — radio, movies, magazines and books — and persuaded our leaders to support the Communist Plan to turn China and Korea over to...

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America’s Second Crusade

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

03/16/1950 • William Henry Chamberlin

Was World War II a failure? It is an unthinkable thought in the American political ethos. but noted American journalist and author William Henry Chamberlin dares think it, from the vantage point of the immediate postwar world of 1950. “Not one...

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Economics and the Public Welfare

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

05/04/1949 • Benjamin Anderson

Here is a contemporaneous account of the economic history of the first half of the 20th century, by an American adherent of the Austrian School. Covered in these pages is the inflation of World War I and following, the 1920s boom, and the onset...

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The Roosevelt Myth

Tags: Biographies, U.S. History

08/15/1948 • John T. Flynn

Franklin D. Roosevelt is the most sainted president of the 20th century. You have to look far and wide to discover the truth about his character and policies. But as John T. Flynn noted in this landmark 1948 volume, FDR actually prolonged the...

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Pearl Harbor: The Story of the Secret War

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

09/29/1947 • George Morgenstern

George Morgenstern’s Pearl Harbor: The Story of the Secret War has to be one of the bravest books ever written. It’s a wonder it came out at all, but it did, in 1947, just as the war ended and FDR had died. It argues that the bombing was not...

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Will Dollars Save the World?

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

06/15/1947 • Henry Hazlitt

Henry Hazlitt had left the New York Times in an ideological disagreement over post-war economic policy. Once he left, he was free to speak his mind on the important issues of the day, among which the Marshall Plan. This is his blockbuster...

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