Bradley A. Hansen's Blog

In Hobbled by Hobbes Christopher Ryan argues that the anthropological and archeological evidence is inconsistent with Steven Pinker’s i...

I have written several times about how Edward Baptist just makes up numbers for his estimate of the importance of slavery to American e...

We just spent the weekend driving from Fredericksburg to St. Louis and back (for Mary's parents 60th anniversary). We stayed a night...

Robin Grier talks with Marshall Poe about The Long Process of Development: Building Markets and States in Pre Industrial England, Spain...

Here is a nice essay on the benefits of higher education from the New York Times.   Also from the New York Times is Mankiw on th...

S-USIH.org has the fourth of James Livingston’s essays on What is Called History at the End of Modernity . among other tings, Livingston...

At H-SHEAR Daniel Feller writes about Standards of Accuracy in Historical Scholarship  in recent works by Johnson and Baptist and starts an ...

This is one of the reasons why books like Empire of Cotton and The Half has Never Been Told irritate me so much. People like Harold My...