U.S. History

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Modern historians often portray post-Civil War “Reconstruction” as a time when well-meaning Republicans tried to aid newly-freed slaves who were being oppressed by their former masters. Using revisionist history, Wanjiru Njoya comes up with different, more realistic, accounts.

Although a new presidential administration and Republican Congress have claimed support for civil liberties, support remains strong for the liberty-destroying FISA law. The more things change, the more they remain the same.

Most editorialists and pundits have labeled Jimmy Carter's presidency a failure, but his activities after he left office as a rousing success. The truth is that his successful deregulation efforts have left a positive and lasting legacy.

Gen. William T. Sherman‘s infamous “March to the Sea” is covered almost antiseptically in American history texts. Yet, Sherman‘s actions would have been judged as war crimes had he not been on the winning side.

"Where do you put him in the moral scale? It seems to me you put Mr. Nixon pretty close to the bottom."

"The theory of historians... is that anybody who's really radical is a nut."

Progressives have created the fiction in which the US Constitution “is what the Supreme Court says it is.” In reality, the justices simply interpret the Constitution according to modern statist progressive viewpoints that fit their own progressive narratives.

Tom DiLorenzo appears on the Watchman Privacy Podcast.

What answer explains the heinous attack in New Orleans while making the fewest logical leaps? Perhaps it is another instance of the unintended costs of the global War on Terror.