Available at amazon.com my books: The Invisible Hand in American History (2013): You cannot really understand a nation today without a knowledge of its past. The role of economics in shaping its past is like that of the drum section of a marching band. The "battery" of a band, the drum section provides the tempo, rhythm, and power. As though they are guided by an invisible hand, in a market economy said the father of modern economic thought, Adam Smith, buyers and sellers following their own self interest promote the interest of their society. This economic and business history of the United States is lively because it is built around interesting personalities and events and looks forward beyond the surface for longer term meanings and consequences. Readers will wonder why some of those exposed to economic concepts elsewhere find economics--a science of common sense--a difficult subject. In its presentation it is not politically correct by either past or current standards. and Clopton's Short History of the Confederate States of America, 1861-1925 (2009).
This sterotype-breaking counterfactual history includes an interesting and insightful non-fiction appendix.
Some of the articles below are pdf documents
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Civil War Confiscation
General Robert E. Lee's Last Offensive
The Radio Inventor/Entrepreneurs
The World's Banking Turned Upside Down
Banking
Lessons from the Antebellum South
Antebellum Banking in Georgia
A Lesson for Young People About Life on the Farm in the Old Days
Belle of the Fifties Becomes Refugee of the Sixties
The Men Behind the Men With the Guns: Southern Manufacturers
Bill Arp, Georgia's Premier Humorist
The
Disappearance from Georgia of the Farm Union
Brown High School
Black Confederates?
The Very Different But Connected Economies of the Northeast and the South Before the Civil War
Southrons in Blue
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