Conservative Historical Figure of the Month April 2013

Milton Friedman:

The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.

Featured on Conservative Historian:

What was said during the backswing of a college president that revealed the true nature of academia?  Find out in News and Events.

Margaret Thatcher was a great Prime Minister.  The biopic Iron Lady however is excrement.  See more in Historical TV and Movies.

We probably do not need horses per President Obama.  But do we need more ships?  See what we have to say in the columns section. 

Both presidential candidates want more teachers.  See what columnist Jay Greene, a Professor at the University of Arkansas thinks of that idea in the news section. 

During Obama's now famous Roanoke speech he said of entrepreneurs, "You didn't build that." He was not the first.  Find out Obama's intellectual forebears in the columns section.

Why benevolent dicatators are never benevolent.  Learn more about good king Henry (VII) in the book review section. 

What does Laura Hillenbrand's Unbroken have to tell us about the historical narrative? Find out on Book Review.

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

Thomas Jefferson 

Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.

Buffet and the tax code, presidential vacations and should we take TR off of Rushmore, find out more in the columns section.