The Skeptic's Guide to American History

An award-winning scholar and professor examines commonly held myths and half-truths about American history and invites you to think about what really happened in the nation's past--as opposed to what many believe happened.

• By This Professor
• 01: Religious Toleration in Colonial America?
• 02: Neither American nor Revolutionary?
• 03: The Constitution Did Not Create a Democracy
• 04: Washington-Failures and Real Accomplishments
• 05: Confusions about Jefferson and Hamilton
• 06: Andrew Jackson-An Odd Symbol of Democracy
• 07: The Second Great Awakening-Enduring Impacts
• 08: Did Slavery Really Cause the Civil War?
• 09: The Civil War's Actual Turning Points
• 10: The Myth of Laissez-Faire
• 11: Misconceptions about the Original Populists
• 12: Labor in America-A Strange History
• 13: Myths about American Isolation and Empire
• 14: Early Progressives Were Not Liberals
• 15: Woodrow Wilson and the Rating of Presidents
• 16: The Roaring Twenties Reconsidered
• 17: Hoover and the Great Depression Revisited
• 18: What Did Roosevelt's New Deal Really Do?
• 19: World War II Misconceptions and Myths
• 20: Was the Cold War Inevitable?
• 21: The Real Blunders of the Vietnam War
• 22: Myths about American Wars
• 23: Who Matters in American History?
• 24: History Did Not Begin with Us