The Truth About American History: An Austro-Jeffersonian Perspective
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The Truth About American History: An Austro-Jeffersonian Perspective
Thomas E. Woods, Jr. presents this seminar covering the material in his books, and details and defends the Jeffersonian-Rothbardian perspective. Here is the cutting edge of libertarian history that completely rethinks the meaning and impact of the welfare-warfare state.
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10. The American Presidency: Critical Episodes in Its Growth, Part II
The Mexican War 1846-48 involved unpaid debts to Americans, a desire for West coast territory, and the issue of Texas whose independence was not recog...
9. The American Presidency: Critical Episodes in Its Growth, Part I
No President should leave a citizen in doubt about his person or property. However, this original comforting view is contrasted with more modern theor...
8. Major Episodes in American Labor History: An Austrian Reevaluation, Part II
Up until the 1930s there was freedom of contract between workers and employers by which they could make, accept, or reject any offers of remuneration....
7. Major Episodes in American Labor History: An Austrian Reevaluation, Part I
The standard tale of labor history in American is largely false. Unions did not cause a rising standard of living. Employers were forbidden to encoura...
6. The Great Depression, World War II, and American Prosperity, Part II
FDR’s stated New Deal purpose was to keep work weeks short and to extend minimum wages which were extremely high. But, production is what makes demand...
5. The Great Depression, World War II, and American Prosperity, Part I
The 1920s had difficulties, but the depth of the Great Depression was in 1931. Any theory of boom-bust events must ask why so many entrepreneurs made...
4. The Fourteenth Amendment
This is a difficult issue. Most of the controversy is from Section One. What exactly does the first sentence mean? If the Fourteenth Amendment was in...
3. The States' Rights Tradition Nobody Knows
New England was not in favor of the War of 1812 and it considered seceding, but the death of Hamilton in his duel with Burr destroyed that plan. The i...
2. States' Rights in Theory and Practice
The compact theory holds that self-governing sovereign states have rights to protect themselves, whereas the nationalist theory holds that nullificati...
1. Thomas Jefferson and the Principles of '98
The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 had criminalized excessive criticism of government. Jefferson feared it would be used in a partisan way. The Acts...