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[Preface to Why American History Is Not What They Say: An Introduction to Revisionism .] Americans have been warring with each other for more than a century over the contents of the American-history textbooks used in the nation’s high schools and colleges. Nor is the reason far to seek. If, as seems to be the case, these textbooks encompass one

[This article is excerpted from Why American History Is Not What They Say: An Introduction to Revisionism .] Today, history is regarded, if not as one of the social sciences, then at least as an independent discipline that deals in facts, not fancies; in edification, not entertainment. But it was not always thus. Harry Elmer Barnes reports that

The Birth of American Revisionism and the Rise of Harry Elmer Barnes Charles A. Beard and William Appleman Williams: From Progressivism to the New Left Harry Elmer Barnes and James J. Martin: From Progressivism to Libertarianism James J. Martin: Historian and Pamphleteer The Libertarian Historians and Their Colleagues on the New Left Notes [This

[This article is excerpted from chapter five of Why American History Is Not What They Say: An Introduction to Revisionism .] In 1932, according to John T. Flynn, there were no federal “subsidies to farmers, handouts to the indigent, [or] support [for] schools.” The federal government did not “build hospitals [or] provide medical care.” [1] And

[This article is excerpted from chapter five of Why American History Is Not What They Say: An Introduction to Revisionism .]   The coming of the New Deal ended a long era in American political history — an era that had endured for more than a hundred years, an era in which every national election was a contest between a liberal party and a

[This article is transcribed from the Libertarian Tradition podcast episode “Conspiracy Theories, History, and the State.”] If you spend much time on the Internet, you probably already know who Cass Sunstein is: he’s a former professor of law and political science at the University of Chicago, where, during the 1990s, he met and became close

[This article is transcribed from the Libertarian Tradition podcast episode “Yevgeny Zamyatin: Libertarian Novelist.”] When we think of the libertarian tradition, we tend naturally to think of political philosophers and economists of the past. But surely one part of the libertarian tradition belongs to novelists and other fiction writers. In

[This article is transcribed from the Libertarian Tradition podcast episode “Standards and Textbooks.”] Late last week, the Texas Board of Education, meeting in Austin, the state capitol, made some preliminary decisions about what the next generation of students will learn about subjects like history, economics, and sociology, when they take

[This article is transcribed from the Libertarian Tradition podcast episode “Roger MacBride and Rose Wilder Lane: A Libertarian Legacy .”] Roger MacBride died 15 years ago, on March 4, 1995, only about eight weeks after the death, on January 7, 1995, of Murray N. Rothbard. Yet contrast their post mortem careers — Rothbard is, if anything, bigger

[This article is transcribed from the Libertarian Tradition podcast episode “Timothy Ferris and Lynn Hunt: The Cause of Liberty.”] Timothy Ferris is a science writer and documentary filmmaker whose articles and essays have appeared in Rolling Stone , The New Yorker , National Geographic , Playboy , The New York Review of Books , Forbes ,