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The Truth About American History: An Austro-Jeffersonian Perspective

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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.

9. The American Presidency: Critical Episodes in Its Growth, Part I

20 Jun 2005

No President should leave a citizen in doubt about his person or property. However, this original comforting view is contrasted with more modern theory of the Presidency in which Wilson held the

7. Major Episodes in American Labor History: An Austrian Reevaluation, Part I

20 Jun 2005

The standard tale of labor history in American is largely false. Unions did not cause a rising standard of living. Employers were forbidden to encourage union membership, but they could compel union

2. States' Rights in Theory and Practice

20 Jun 2005

The compact theory holds that self-governing sovereign states have rights to protect themselves, whereas the nationalist theory holds that nullification or secession would be insubordination.

10. The American Presidency: Critical Episodes in Its Growth, Part II

20 Jun 2005

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 recognized by Mexico. The Southern boundary was in

5. The Great Depression, World War II, and American Prosperity, Part I

20 Jun 2005

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 terrible errors in a cluster. Why do busts hit

3. The States' Rights Tradition Nobody Knows

20 Jun 2005

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 idea of secession was more embraced by the

8. Major Episodes in American Labor History: An Austrian Reevaluation, Part II

20 Jun 2005

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. With the 1930s comes the idea of exclusive

1. Thomas Jefferson and the Principles of '98

20 Jun 2005

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 violated the Tenth Amendment by encroaching on

4. The Fourteenth Amendment

20 Jun 2005

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 fact intended to bind the states to the Bill of

6. The Great Depression, World War II, and American Prosperity, Part II

20 Jun 2005

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 possible and what increases purchasing power,