History Archives

The American Flag

The start of a baseball game, a football game, a NASCAR race, or a rodeo is predictable: crowds turn to face the American...

John White May 25, 2009

Iran and the Shah: What Really Happened

James Perloff May 12, 2009

Americans have been hearing for several years about potential war with Iran. For instance, on September 17, 2006, Time magazine reported, "The U.S....

Lessons of the Weimar Republic

Denise Behreandt April 28, 2009

In the wake of President Obama’s $3.6 trillion budget and a series of bank and industry bailouts by the Federal Reserve, the specter...

Earth Day Co-founder’s Dark Past

Ann Shibler April 22, 2009

Founded by environmentalists in the late 1960s and officially initiated by Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson in 1970, at least one ecologist/activist who lays...

According to Kinsey, Deviancy Is the New Normal

Steven J. DuBord April 16, 2009

The Kinsey Syndrome, a DVD documentary about the "Father of the Sexual Revolution" and his research, relies on the investigative work of Dr....

Our Monetary Mayhem Began With the Fed

James Perloff April 2, 2009

Nearly all Americans know they are plagued by inflation. In 1962, a postage stamp cost four cents, a candy bar a nickel, a...

The Greatest Blunder in British History

Laurence M. Vance March 30, 2009

It was 70 years ago on March 31 when Great Britain committed the fatal blunder that led to World War II: issuing a...

Revolutionary Virtue

Steven J. DuBord March 18, 2009

"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people," John Adams famously announced in 1798. "It is wholly inadequate to the...

The Militia: In History and Today

Steven J. DuBord March 5, 2009

The army — defender or destroyer of freedom? Throughout history power-hungry rulers have used armies to conquer and oppress other lands, and to...

A Bad Deal Revisited — Obama and FDR

Steven J. DuBord February 5, 2009

ITEM: Writing for Newsweek's online edition on January 13, Daniel Gross complains: "Even before President-elect Obama takes office, critics are circling his yet-to-be-released...

Holodomor: The Secret Holocaust in Ukraine

James Perloff February 5, 2009

When Ukraine resisted Soviet attempts at collectivization in the 1920s and '30s, the Soviet Union under Stalin used labor camps, executions, and starvation...