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Political scientist George Friedman alleges that such a deep state has existed since 1871, when the president's power over federal employees was restricted. [12]Historian Alfred W. McCoy argued that the increase in the power of the United States Intelligence Community since the September 11 attacks "has built a fourth branch of the U.S. government" that is "in many ways autonomous from the ...
The Civilization Fund Act, also known as the Indian Civilization Act, was an Act passed by the United States Congress on March 3, 1819. The Act encouraged activities of benevolent societies in providing education for Native Americans and authorized an annuity to stimulate the "civilization process". [ 1 ]
Some of the most prominent philanthropists in American history include George Peabody, Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Henry Ford, Herbert Hoover, and Bill Gates. Charitable giving in the US, 2009 [1] Statistics indicate the United States is the most generous country in the world over the decade until December 2019. [2] [3]
The redemption movement is an offshoot of the Posse Comitatus, [10] an American far right organization which was established in 1969 by leaders of the white supremacist Christian Identity sect. The Posse's beliefs were rooted in antisemitism and they saw income tax , debt-based currency and debt collection as tools of Jewish control of the ...
Capitalism in America: A History is a 2018 book written by former chairman of the Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan and Adrian Wooldridge, political editor at The Economist. [note 1] The book traces the economic history of the United States since its founding and the authors argue that America's embrace of capitalism and creative destruction has given the nation's economy a superior edge.
The Panic of 1907 was one of the worst panics in US history. [12] The resulting hearings led to creating a lender of last resort. [13] National banks issued National Bank Notes as currency. Because they were uniformly backed by US government debt, they generally traded at comparable values in contrast to the notes issued during the Free Banking ...
While noting the book’s limitation of focussing primarily on English sources, he concludes that the book is "a significant contribution to the economic and commercial history of colonial English America". [4] Another review from that year was Wim Klooster's for The William and Mary Quarterly. He notes that the book is a good rebuke for the ...
A People's History of the United States is a 1980 nonfiction book (updated in 2003) by American historian and political scientist Howard Zinn. In the book, Zinn presented what he considered to be a different side of history from the more traditional "fundamental nationalist glorification of country". [ 1 ]