U.S. History

Twenty-five years ago, in the immediate wake of 9/11, Ron Paul did not propose doing nothing. Instead, he proposed targeting Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda rather than launching a global War on Terror.

Twenty-five years ago, in the immediate wake of 9/11, Ron Paul did not propose doing nothing. Instead, he proposed targeting Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda rather than launching a global War on Terror.

Instead of trying to seek peaceful relationships between southern whites and former slaves during the Reconstruction period, the Reconstruction governments armed the former slaves and helped to set off violence and strife.

The stereotype of the black worker in the Confederacy is that of someone doing heavy, unskilled manual labor. However, historical analysis shows that view to be inaccurate, as they engaged in skilled and specialized labor as well.

Instead of trying to seek peaceful relationships between southern whites and former slaves during the Reconstruction period, the Reconstruction governments armed the former slaves and helped to set off violence and strife.

The infamous Housing Bubble collapsed 18 years ago, and our economy has never truly recovered from it. Instead, the government became even more financially irresponsible.

The traditional explanation of the Panic of 1837 recognizes that excessive bank credit expansion generates inflation, speculation, and economic instability. Yet, the same mainstream explanation wrongly presupposes a national bank was the solution to those problems.

The demise of American coinage is the story of US money in a nutshell. Coins were made of gold and silver. Today, even coins of base metals have face values less than the value of the metal itself.

While historians blame much of the post-Civil War racial violence on white southern Democrats, there also was Republican-led violence against blacks who voted for Democratic Party candidates.

Before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, there were Republican-led civil rights actions taken during Reconstruction to secure voting rights for blacks. In all cases, state sovereignty was pushed aside—with long-term social and political harm as a result.