• "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

Wouldn’t It Be Nice?

Wouldn’t it be nice to have a real command of U.S. history, and be informed on topics like these?

  • Colonial Background
  • Virginia and the Cavaliers
  • Puritan Society
  • Puritans and Indians
  • The Southern Colonies and the Celts
  • The Middle Colonies and the Quakers
  • The French as an English Problem
  • The Imperial Crisis
  • The American Revolution
  • The Constitution Movement
  • The Philadelphia Convention
  • The Ratification Campaign
  • The Washington Administration
  • The Crisis of 1798-1801 and the Jeffersonian Victory
  • The Jefferson and Madison Administrations
  • The Monroe Administration
  • The Marshall Court
  • The Age of Jackson, I:  From the Corrupt Bargain through the Van Buren Administration
  • The Age of Jackson, II: Tyler, Polk, and the War with Mexico
  • Abolitionism
  • The Political Crisis of the 1850s, Part I
  • Secession
  • “Mr. Lincoln’s War”
  • North Over South: Recreating the Union
  • Corruption, Compromise, and the End of Military Reconstruction
  • “Monopoly” and the Robber Barons
  • Episodes in Labor History, 1886-1894
  • Populism
  • The Spanish-American War
  • The Progressive Era
  • World War I
  • Harding and Coolidge
  • The 1920s and the Myth of “Isolationism”
  • The Great Depression
  • Herbert Hoover, the First New Dealer
  • Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal
  • The Coming of World War II
  • World War II
  • The Origins of the Cold War
  • Harry Truman and the U.S. Presidency
  • The Eisenhower Years
  • JFK: The Other Side of Camelot
  • Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society
  • The Civil Rights Movement, Part I
  • The Warren Court and the Civil Rights Movement
  • The Vietnam War
  • The 1970s Malaise
  • The Reagan Administration

Wouldn’t it also be nice to learn these things from the authors of The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History, The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution, and The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Founding Fathers? And to learn them whenever and wherever you want, but still to be able to ask questions of the professors?

Wipe that tear from your eye, my friend. It’s no longer just a dream. It’s now reality.

Unlearn the Propaganda!

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  • Greg

    robber barons?

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  • http://www.facebook.com/people/William-Schooler/100003032488972 William Schooler

    Why, so I may quote it? How about if we cut to the chase and review all the results of such a rich history? This way we can truly verify which choices were made versus looking at some others view of it.

    I know, its so important to have all these books behind us so smart has a reason.

    It would be better to see this in pictures of it and make up our own minds of causes and effects versus the influence of someones view in symbol form.

    How did all ideas get passed along and who owns each idea?

  • http://www.TomWoods.com Tom Woods

    I do not understand what any of this means.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/William-Schooler/100003032488972 William Schooler

    LOL, why does that not suprise me?

  • http://www.TomWoods.com Tom Woods

    Is there anyone who understands what that means?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/William-Schooler/100003032488972 William Schooler

    Here let me decode it for you, since evidently simple words are too simple to go back to their basics to get.

    This significance we put on history books from a persons view point of it and using that as your own deciding factors is my dispute.

    I being one of these history buffs that read like a mad man only to find myself some place I did not want to be.

    When I started identifying results of history like Colonials, Puritan Society and the American Revolution. The results being things that are documented that we can see and verify took place, then to identify the ideas and choices that actually caused it to take place, the whose, the whys and so on. When adapting this to our own lives as through experiences do the truths truly get revealed.

    Then their are those with the great memories who take these and think they now are the experts on these subjects from someone else’s view no less. This being the idea of smart these days gives one their idea they are smart because they read all these but really have no clue how to experience such an event and why we would want to. Experience being our only greatest teacher of all. Not to say some do not pass on some great experiences that are very real to the reader, their are many. But there are also those who have no experiences at all making up their minds on what they read and calling it valid or authoritative, this is nonsense.

    Since reason is based entirely on good understanding along side experiences that validate each other because symbols are simply a representation of events or experiences to express what one went through and the results of such an activity. Tell this to someone who has no experience and they will argue you until they are blue only to make themselves right for them, yet I am proof positive of my own experiences.

    Then we have ideas, some tested and many not tested at all. These get passed along through symbolization organized into words. This practice started 1000s of years ago and it was found it was corruptible and very much was. Many historians refuse to see it themselves and continually fall into the traps created by such masters of persuasion. Yet it is a major part of history and what is missed is the essence of words to represent experiences, as well ideas to the testing table, not to be passed along over and over again without the testing. Here is where most get it entirely wrong because they themselves are clueless to our own capability as choice makers. Since nothing we experience  takes place without this choice factor it becomes very important on what we put into choices. If we put in a lot of false ideas (untested or poor performing) and decide to use these the results will always falter.

    So in closing, these books and this history are only as good as those who read them are willing to verify these experiences were real, not by some made up view but by real choice making. Otherwise it becomes a false sense of history and some will take this and run and think they are experts when in fact they were simply book readers who never go out and experience a thing and what may I ask is more false than this?

    So no disrespect Tom and I know you pride yourself heavily on your education and feel successful for it, I simply view success from a different perspective and allows me to look at it from out side the education box of America. This does not mean I do not like people that educate but does mean I dispute many by being honest. Its not to put others down, it is to really point to some other major history Language being one). Many are diverted from these which have far more impacts than these history books and these verifications are found in results documented in history and finding the causes becomes the great experience as well the knowledge one can use in great choice making.

    All ideas are passed along by all of us because we all generate ideas don’t we? Most stick their ideas of something on to it which now becomes a view rather than documented fact. There are literally billions of poor or bad ideas floating around and there are very good ones as well with bunches in books no less. How do we find which is which? The experiencing or pretending?

  • http://www.TomWoods.com Tom Woods

    Why not simply say, “I believe I would be better off studying the primary sources than to filter American history through a historian’s lens”? That would be one concise, understandable sentence.

    I assure you, the problem is that I’m not a stupidhead, or a pointyhead who can’t understand regular people, or whatever. The reason everyone on this blog complains that your comments are incomprehensible could be the problem of everyone here. Or it could be your problem.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/William-Schooler/100003032488972 William Schooler

    Because I am not exactly like you means what? Individual? Maybe the complaints being cast are because many view so many things the same way. Maybe it is not me at all and hopefully this will help you and others from a different view or look.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68iTESUe8mM&

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/William-Schooler/100003032488972 William Schooler

    For the record I have never considered you a stupihead, or pointyhead at all and have far more respect for people and life and who is it that communicates the ideas in my head? I thought those were my own to decide with.