U.S. History

Education in America

Tags: Big Government, Education, Taxes and Spending, U.S. History

07/15/1969 • George Charles Roche III

From the author: Increasing numbers of Americans express concern over the deterioration of modem society, accurately pinpointing various failings-social, political, and economic. Most of us are far better at discovering shortcomings than...

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History of Crises Under the National Banking System

Tags: Booms and Busts, Money and Banks, U.S. History

10/13/1968 • O.M.W. Sprague

This detailed description of the series of financial crises which occurred from the establishment of the National Banking System up to its replacement by the Federal Reserve System includes an analysis of the causes of financial market failures...

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American Liberalism and World Politics: 1931-1941

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

08/27/1964 • James J. Martin

From the foreword by John Chamberlain: This animated jumbo of a book, which is alive with the savor and color of a long departed time when half-forgotten figures like Oswald Garrison Villard and Raymond Gram Swing were setting our intellectual...

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Organization of Debt into Currency and Other Papers

Tags: Money and Banks, U.S. History

06/15/1964 • Charles Holt Carroll

Charles Holt Carroll defended sound money in a blazing series of essays appearing in the latter decades of the 19th century. They are all collected here, in The Organization of Debt into Currency and Other Papers. Little is known of Charles Holt...

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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: Featured, Homeschool Resource, Intermediate, 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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