• "Well written, well researched, and the thesis put forth is well argued.... Woods has opened up an area of historical analysis that should invite further study."
    -Journal of American History

  • "During these times that challenge our freedoms there is no one more qualified to make U.S. history relevant to the fight against big government than Thomas Woods."
    -Barry Goldwater Jr.
    Former Member of Congress

  • "I strongly recommend Woods's work."
    -The Honorable Ron Paul,
    U.S. House of Representatives

  • "Written with great clarity and fluency, making the complex philosophical and theological concepts approachable."
    -Journal of American Studies

  • "A must-read."
    -Barron's

  • "An excellent reading source for anyone interested in financial markets, and much more so for anyone interested in learning about capitalism without all the misinterpretations being thrown about in the financial media."
    -Asia Times

  • "Provocative, well-written, and deserves to be read."
    -Catholic Historical Review

  • "An engaging and important contribution to scholarship on the history of American Catholicism."
    -Journal of the Historical Society

  • "Woods and [co-author Kevin] Gutzman appeal to both left and right in this constitutionalist jeremiad…. The authors' exegeses of the Constitution and court decisions, heavy on original intent arguments, are lucid and telling."
    -Publishers Weekly

  • "A marvelous read. Every chapter taught me something new and unexpected."
    -Tom Bethell, senior editor,
    The American Spectator

  • "The hottest book today is Meltdown, by my friend Tom Woods."
    -Judge Andrew Napolitano, senior judicial analyst,
    FOX News Channel

  • "Should be required reading."
    -Economic Affairs (London)

  • "Woods, one of the best classical liberal [libertarian] scholars of his generation, has once more placed us in his debt with this lucid and tightly argued book."
    -David Gordon, The Mises Review

  • "Tom Woods is one of my dearest allies in the struggle against wrong-headed and dangerous economic policy."
    -Peter Schiff

A Constitutional History of the U.S., the Way It’s Never Taught

Today we added U.S. Constitutional History, course number seven, to LibertyClassroom.com. Our version is kind of like the opposite of what your law professor taught you.

Best of all, you can listen while driving, and ask questions in our forums.

Here are the lecture titles:

1 German and British Antecedents
Germania, Magna Charta, and the Glorious Revolution
2 Colonial Constitutionalism and the Imperial Crisis
3 The Imperial Crisis (continued)
4 The Declaration of Independence
5 Articles of Confederation and the Critical Period
6 To the Philadelphia Convention
Mt. Vernon, Annapolis, and James Madison’s Research Project
7 The Philadelphia Convention
8 Ratification
9 The Federalist
10 State Constitutions
e.g., Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts — but Connecticut and Rhode Island
11 The First Congress
Cabinet Departments, Judiciary Act, Bill of Rights
12 At Swords’ Point
Jefferson v. Hamilton in the Cabinet (Assumption, Bank Bill, Neutrality Proclamation)
13 Federalists off the Rails
Chisholm v. Georgia (1793), Alien and Sedition Acts, Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
14 Jeffersonians Take Command
Election of 1800/01; Repeal of the 1801 Judiciary Act
but — Pickering and Chase Impeachments; Jefferson Rejects Taylor/Pendleton Amendment Advice
15 The Marshall Court (I)
Marbury v. Madison (1803); Fletcher v. Peck (1810)
16 The Marshall Court (II)
McCulloch v. Maryland (1819); Barron v. Baltimore (1833)
17 The Missouri Crisis (1820-21)
18 The Jackson Administration
The Bank Bill Veto and a New Vision of the Presidency; The Nullification Crisis
19 Antebellum Commentaries
20 Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
21 Abraham Lincoln’s Election and the Secession Crisis
22 Mr. Lincoln’s War
Rejects Secession; Prize Cases; Federal Conscription; Paper Money; Vallandigham; Habeas Corpus
23 Reconstruction
Conquest; Abolition; 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments; Republican Governments; End of Occupation
24 The Era of Substantive Due Process
25 Progressivism
Empire (Spanish-American War); 16th Amendment; 17th Amendment; Federal Reserve; Presidential Leadership; Prohibition; 19th Amendment
26 The New Deal (I)
First New Deal; Revolution of 1937; Second New Deal
27 The New Deal (II)
Four Terms for Roosevelt; A SCUS full of New Dealers; Everson v. Ewing Township; The UN
28 The Civil Rights Movement
Smith v. Allwright; Brown v. Board I & II (1954, ’55); Cooper v. Aaron; Civil Rights Act of 1964; Voting Rights Act of 1965
29 The Warren and Burger Courts
Redistricting; Forced Busing; Criminal Law
30 The Imperial Presidency
The War Powers Act; The Unitary Executive; Torture and Congress/Treaties; The Spending Power and the Regulatory State

Join us!

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  • http://TheInterventionistParadox.wordpress.com/ Bharat

    I’m not going to have time to take this course for a while, but I can still learn from reading your e-mails!

    (I thought it was “wet your appetite” this whole time. Now I know it’s “whet* your appetite”)

  • Pastor KoRect

    This looks really good!!! Seeing it makes me jealous that I cannot possibly find the time to go through this material. But there will be a time….

  • jtpquinn

    O_O…Stupendous!!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Robert-Roddis/707435410 Robert Roddis

    Thanks to “Lord Keynes”, we will never have to endure another BS statement from Keynesians and MMTers like this one from Dale Pierce ever again:

    Under the gold standard, and largely because of the gold standard, the capitalist world endured eight different deflationary slumps severe enough to be called “depressions.”

    http://mikenormaneconomics.blogspot.com/2013/03/dale-pierce-what-is-modern-monetary.html

    LK demonstrates that THE CLASSICAL GOLD STANDARD ERA WAS A MYTH precisely as described for the last 50 years by Murray Rothbard:

    http://socialdemocracy21stcentury.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-classical-gold-standard-era-was-myth.html#comment-form

    This is excellent. This is like when Daniel Kuehn’s paper on the 1920 depression was consistent with the Rothbardian analysis of WWI:

    http://factsandotherstubbornthings.blogspot.com/2013/01/poor-kid-was-just-couple-years-too.html?showComment=1358998365568#c2813953362544372035

    I’m bookmarking this LK post and also keeping a copy for future reference.

  • Michael

    this is excellent.

    I was wondering, why don’t you (alongside Gutzman or other co-writers) write a homeschooling academic level history textbook of US history? not a popular press book like PIguide that you did, but rather a proper textbook (from a libertarian conservative standpoint)?

  • http://www.facebook.com/michael.figaro.37 Michael Figaro

    I’m only up to lecture four and already I’ve learned numerous valuable things which neither my primary nor secondary education made available to me.

  • Anonymous

    Already downloaded, thanks for this Tom!
    -Thorax232
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  • daniel

    any plans for a course on political philosophy?

  • http://www.TomWoods.com Tom Woods

    I would like one.

  • Arash

    Thank you so much!!!!

  • Anonymous

    The plan, the course, or both?

    I’d imagine that if you did do it that it would probably have to be a history of political thought/philosophy. At least that is how I would go about it.

  • http://www.TomWoods.com Tom Woods

    Yes, that’s what I have in mind. The question is whether I can get the person I want to teach it.

  • Anonymous

    Well, he’s definitely a great choice and I’d be willing to bet that he’s probably already done something along these lines with his day job. Hopefully you won’t have to twist his arm too much.

    Have fun down in Auburn.

  • EarthWood

    Thanks a lot, I’m Canadian and love learning real history!

  • Anonymous

    Hey Tom, now that I’ve had a little time to listen to some of the lectures I just wanted to let you know that this is some good stuff. Lots of info that I wasn’t aware of, and both Brion and Kevin are thus far doing an awesome job. Big thumbs up!

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