A few years ago I came to the realization that I did not learn the whole story about American history in my high school AP history class. Sure I passed the AP exam and got college credit, getting out of the conveyor belt American Heritage class at BYU, but I’ve since learned that the winners of wars write the history books. We rarely get to hear the losers’ side. I have learned a lot by hearing the loser’s side too.

Richard Maybury of the Uncle Eric books and other authors like Tom Woods Jr. PhD, a professional historian with degrees from Columbia and Harvard, have opened my eyes to the other side. Wars like the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, the world wars, the Spanish American war, and all the wars, have more to the story than you read in a typical high school history textbook or the newspapers. The stories in these sources don’t always reflect principles of liberty and the importance of limited government. 

Here’s an example of a lecture from the Liberty Classroom with Tom Woods focusing on Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Era.

That’s why I am SOOOO excited about Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom. If you love liberty,  free market economics, and the idea of limited government, you are going to love this source. It’s back-to-school time for liberty-loving moms! You don’t have to go to a traditional classroom either, you can learn at home and study the history and economics you didn’t learn in public school or college.You can learn while chauffeuring the kids or helping them with dishes or other chores Then you can go online and.you can ask questions of Dr. Woods, and the other experts. You can become a “ferocious debater” as it says on the website to defend the principles of liberty and limited government. Go to the Liberty Classroom here to learn more and sign up today!

Just as a sample of what you will be learning, here’s my favorite U.S. history book from Tom Woods with my review below. 

This book was incredibly eye-opening. The Doctrine and Covenants says we are to waste out our days bringing hidden things to light. This book helps you to do that. The author goes through the span of U.S. history, from the Pilgrims to Bill Clinton, exposing what the popular myths are. So I learned the following:

-the Native Americans were not the first American environmentalists
-the revolutionary war was was more of a return to common law rights of Englishmen rather than a rebellion
-the Civil War wasn’t really about slavery
-secession of the southern states wasn’t treason; they were just exercising the right that New York, Rhode Island and Virginia had stipulated when they ratified the Constitution. This was the right that they could withdraw from the union if they ever felt the new government became oppressive 
-Lincoln wanted to send black Americans to Africa
-in his fourth debate with Douglas, Lincoln said that he did not, nor did he ever, want to bring about equality between the white and black races
-Andrew Johnson was mistreated by the Radical Republicans of Congress, he was basically “framed” or set up to do something dubiously unconstitutional, so that his political enemies in Congress could then impeach him
-the 14th amendment wasn’t properly ratified
-Wilson did not hold Britian and Germany to the same standards of neutrality in regards to their warships before the U.S. entered the war, which is part of the reason why the U.S. ended up entering the war
-Woodrow Wilson was seriously deluded
-JFK’s father (who made his fortune as a bootlegger) paid someone to write Profiles of Courage, and then bought tens of thousands of copies of the books and then stashed them in storage, so it would get bestseller status
-JFK made a deal with the Mafia boss to buy votes so he could win the presidency. He philandered with a girlfriend who was also the mistress of this Mafia boss
-FDR wanted to fight a war with Japan and goaded them into it
-FDR was chummy with Stalin and thought that Stalin would work with him to create a world of “democracy and peace.” He agreed to “give” Poland to Stalin but told Stalin not to publicize it because he didn’t want to lose the Polish vote in the next presidential election
-the Marshall Plan did not help Europe to recover economically after WWII, free markets did
-after WWII, Russian POWs in the U.S. were tear-gassed at Ft. Dix and sent back to the Soviet Union, after they had begged not be sent back there and after USG officials “promised” that they would allow them to stay here (Operation Keelhaul)
-many Communists existed in the U.S.
-a guy who won the Pulitzer prize for reporting that there was no famine in the Ukraine during Stalin’s reign actually lied. (There was a massive famine.) When someone asked the Pulitzer prize committee to revoke his honor, they refused
-a historian who was liberal and socialist changed his ways and returned to his boyhood Catholicism
-Lyndon Johnson stole his senate win 
-LBJ’s war on poverty actually made it worse
-under Clinton’s reign U.S. troops were sent to more wars in the world total than in all the other presidencies combined
-Clinton probably bombed a pharmaceutical plant in Mogadishu to detract attention from his Lewinsky scandal