Thursday, September 11, 2025

The United States Declares War in April 1917: Why?

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The United States declared war on Germany in April 1917. President Woodrow Wilson had campaigned for his reelection by promising that he wou...
Tuesday, February 4, 2025

Changes in American Attitudes Toward Alcohol and Their Unintended Consequences

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Over centuries, American social thought about alcohol has developed significantly. To understand earlier phases of this process, it is first...
Friday, December 27, 2024

A Bumpy Start: The U.S. Economy Immediately after the Treaty of Paris

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The American Revolutionary War ended for practical purposes in 1781 with the near-cessation of hostilities, but it ended officially in 1783 ...
Wednesday, June 26, 2024

When the Depression Became the Great Depression: Going from Bad to Worse

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The reader will know that the stock market crash of October 1929 is associated with the Great Depression. But how is it associated? Was it t...
Monday, June 24, 2024

Jim Crow Governments Shackle Free Enterprise: Regulating Businesses Empowers Racism

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Anyone familiar with the painful struggle for civil rights in the United States has read about “Jim Crow Laws.” What were these laws? They w...
Sunday, June 23, 2024

Why Did It Take So Long? The Abolition of Slavery in the United States

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There is no simple explanation for the history of slavery in the United States. From 1607, the time of the first permanent settlement in wha...
Friday, May 24, 2024

The “Three-Fifths Clause” — The Founders Plant the Seed for the Ultimate Abolition

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The infamous “three-fifths clause” in the U.S. Constitution has been debated and misunderstood for decades and even centuries. Was this noto...