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Communist Subversion of USA

American Betrayal is America’s lost history, a chronicle that pits Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight David Eisenhower, and other American icons who shielded overlapping Communist conspiracies against the investigators, politicians, defectors, and others (including Senator Joseph McCarthy) who tried to tell the American people the truth.

American Betrayal shatters the approved histories of an era that begins with FDR’s first inauguration, when “happy days” are supposed to be here again, and ends when we “win” the Cold War. It is here, amid the rubble, where Diana West focuses on the World War II–Cold War deal with the devil in which America surrendered her principles in exchange for a series of Big Lies whose preservation soon became the basis of our leaders’ own self-preservation. It was this moral surrender to deception and self-deception, West argues, that sent us down the long road to moral relativism, “political correctness,” and other cultural ills that have left us unable to ask the hard questions.

Diana West is a journalist and the author of The Death of the Grown-Up: How America’s Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization, American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character and The Rebuttal: Defending ‘American Betrayal’ from the Book-Burners. Here, she joins Stefan Molyneux for a fascinating discussion.

Our Founding Fathers

Were the Founding Fathers all racist slave owners? Historian and author David Barton stopped by the Louder with Crowder show to talk about our Founding Fathers and the TRUTH about their positions on slavery.

History of Thanksgiving

Studies Weekly takes an in-depth look at the history of Thanksgiving and how it became one of our nation’s most celebrated holidays. The storylines include the Mayflower, Pilgrims and Squanto, the Native American from the Patuxet Tribe who helped Pilgrims through their first winter in the New World and was integral to their survival. The video also takes a look at the contributions of Sarah Josepha Hale, an American writer and editor who urged President Lincoln and several governors to proclaim a national Thanksgiving Day. Enjoy the video, and have a Happy Thanksgiving.

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Battles of the Civil War

In this episode of Crash Course, John Green lists a whole lot of the battles of the US Civil War in seven and a half minutes. We get a lot of requests for military history, so we offer a list of battle names, with some commentary about outcomes, and lots of really interesting pictures

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The Election of 1860

In the leadup to the election of 1860, tensions between the North and South were rising, ultimately due to the single issue of slavery. The North wanted to abolish slavery, and the South wanted to continue on with it. It seemed like a war was inevitable, and it turns out that it was. But first the nation had to get through this election. John Green explains.

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The Mexican-American War

In this episode of Crash Course, John Green teaches you about the Mexican-American War in the late 1840s, and the expansion of the United States into the western end of North America. US territory finally reaches from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific Ocean. After Oregon was secured from the United Kingdom and the Southwest was ceded by Mexico, that is.

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Middle Ages Not So Dark

There is no period in history more misunderstood than the Middle Ages. Providence College Professor of English, Anthony Esolen, vividly demonstrates why the “Dark Ages” would be better described as the “Brilliant Ages.”

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The Man, the Legend

Have you heard of Alexander von Humboldt? Not likely. The geologist turned South American explorer was a bit of an 18th century super scientist, traveling over 24,000 miles to understand the relationship between nature and habitat. George Mehler details Humboldt’s major accomplishments and why we should care about them today. H/T TEDEducation

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Cool Cat Coolidge

Is it possible to make government smaller? Few think so today. Few thought so almost a century ago, following WWI. But one man proved them wrong, our 30th President, Calvin Coolidge (1923 -1929). Acclaimed historian Amity Shlaes explains how Coolidge did more by doing less and why his governing style might just be the approach we need now. H/T PragerU

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How Trains Stopped Time

Before 1883, we didn’t have Eastern Time Zone, the Mountain Time Zone or any standardized system for keeping clocks synchronized across the United States. Every region, every city could set clocks however they wanted, and there were enormous variations. William Heuisler explains the history of time and how trains changed everything.

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