Product Description: Presenting a new perspective on the influence of the military complex on U.S. society, this account follows the rise and decline of the antimilitarist tradition—rooted in fear of dictatorship—that has been an important part of the American heritage from colonial times until the 1950s and even today...read more

Product Description: Original material by Ralph Raico, Edited by Wendy McElroy, Produced by Pat Childs President Woodrow Wilson called World War I “a war to make the world safe for democracy.” But the conflict did not result in democracy or safety...read more

Product Description: Original material by Ralph Raico, Edited by Wendy McElroy, Produced by Pat Childs Recent events have made it clear that the Soviet Union is not a monolith; it’s a collection of nationalities, many with serious objection to union...read more

Product Description: Original material by Ralph Raico, Edited by Wendy McElroy, Produced by Pat Childs Germany is historically one of the most important of all nations. Since emerging from its days as a Roman province, Germany (including Prussia) has had a central role in European affairs...read more

Product Description: Original material for The Korean War by Joseph Stromberg, Original material for The Vietnam War: Part I by Wendy McElroy, Edited by Wendy McElroy, Produced by Pat Childs At the end of World War II, the United States and Soviet Russia vied for dominance around the world...read more

Product Description: Original material by Joseph Stromberg (The Spanish-American War) and Ralph Raico (World War I), Edited by Wendy McElroy, Produced by Pat Childs By the turn of the twentieth century, the United States had evolved from a colony into an international power...read more

Product Description: This presentation discusses two political documents that have changed history: Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto and Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Social Contract. In the Communist Manifesto, Marx argues that history flows inevitably toward a social revolution, which will result in a society without economic classes...read more

Product Description: Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat, captured the essence of nineteenth-century America in his penetrating work, Democracy in America. The democratic concept of equality was emerging as a political reality in America, and it threatened the aristocracy of Europe; it produced a society of individualists hungry for self improvement...read more