George Smith's Swift History of the United States
With the kind assistance of the Salem Center for Policy, I’m releasing three more lectures by autodidact extraordinaire George Smith (1949-2022). The latest series of talks covers the American Revolution, the American Civil War, the Gilded Age, the Progressive Era, and more. I had the privilege of hearing and arguing with George on multiple occasions in the early 90s, and it’s always thrilling to hear his radio-announcer voice release another firehose of knowledge.
Enjoy!
P.S. Hope to see you at the Cato Institute in DC tomorrow, and/or My Chemical Romance in Philadelphia on Friday. I’ll also be in Princeton on Saturday. Email me if you want to meet up and maybe we’ll be able to work something out.
That's a lot of words to spend on the supposed irrelevance of slavery to the civil war without mentioning the thirteenth amendment.
These are AMAZING. Thank you