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Interviews with scholars of American politics about their new books

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Kunal M. Parker, "The Turn to Process: American Legal, Political, and Economic Thought, 1870-1970" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
May 16, 2024
Elizabeth O’Brien Ingleson, "Made in China: When US-China Interests Converged to Transform Global Trade" (Harvard UP, 2024)
May 16, 2024
Christopher Tounsel, "Bounds of Blackness: African Americans, Sudan, and the Politics of Solidarity" (Cornell UP, 2024)
May 15, 2024
Can the Constitution Still Unite Us?: A Conversation with Yuval Levin
May 14, 2024
M. Steven Fish, "Comeback: Routing Trumpism, Reclaiming the Nation, and Restoring Democracy's Edge" (Rivertowns Books, 2024)
May 14, 2024
What does Biden’s temporary suspension of offensive arms transfers mean for US-Israeli relations?
May 13, 2024
Pamela Aronson and Matthew R. Fleming, "Gender Revolution: How Electoral Politics and #MeToo are Reshaping Everyday Life" (Routledge, 2023)
May 12, 2024
Maria Cristina Garcia, "State of Disaster: The Failure of U. S. Migration Policy in an Age of Climate Change" (UNC Press, 2022)
May 12, 2024
Cecily N. Zander, "The Army under Fire: The Politics of Antimilitarism in the Civil War Era" (LSU Press, 2024)
May 12, 2024
Alissa Quart, "Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream" (Ecco Press, 2023)
May 11, 2024
Battlefield to Big Sky: A Conversation with Navy SEAL Tim Sheehy
May 08, 2024
Julia Havas, "Woman Up: Invoking Feminism in Quality Television" (Wayne State UP, 2022)
May 08, 2024
David Tal, "The Making of an Alliance: The Origins and Development of the US-Israel Relationship" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
May 08, 2024
James Wolfinger, "If There Is No Struggle There Is No Progress: Black Politics in Twentieth-Century Philadelphia" (Temple UP, 2022)
May 06, 2024
Tanisha M. Fazal, "Military Medicine and the Hidden Costs of War" (Oxford UP, 2024)
May 05, 2024
David Pozen, "The Constitution of the War on Drugs" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Apr 28, 2024
Michael De Groot, "Disruption: The Global Economic Shocks of the 1970s and the End of the Cold War" (Cornell UP, 2024)
Apr 28, 2024
Leigh Gilmore, "The #MeToo Effect: What Happens When We Believe Women" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Apr 27, 2024
Dana Gorzelany-Mostak, "Tracks on the Trail: Popular Music, Race, and the US Presidency" (U Michigan Press, 2023)
Apr 26, 2024
Anu Bradford, "Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Apr 24, 2024
Gary S. Cross, "Free Time: The History of an Elusive Ideal" (NYU Press, 2024)
Apr 23, 2024
Michael J. Graetz, "The Power to Destroy: How the Antitax Movement Hijacked America" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Apr 23, 2024
Rogers M. Smith and Desmond King, "America’s New Racial Battle Lines: Protect Versus Repair" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Apr 21, 2024
On Fiorello La Guardia and Why He Still Matters: A Discussion with Author Terry Golway
Apr 19, 2024
Words of Attack: Rhetoric Against Liberal Democratic Values with James McAdams
Apr 17, 2024
Melvin L. Rogers, "The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Apr 15, 2024
Seth D. Kaplan, "Fragile Neighborhoods: Repairing American Society, One Zip Code at a Time" (Little, Brown Spark, 2023)
Apr 14, 2024
Stewart Lawrence Sinclair, "Space Rover" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Apr 13, 2024
Joseph M. Thompson, "Cold War Country: How Nashville's Music Row and the Pentagon Created the Sound of American Patriotism" (UNC Press, 2024)
Apr 06, 2024
Mauricio Fernando Castro, "Only a Few Blocks to Cuba: Cold War Refugee Policy, the Cuban Diaspora, and the Transformations of Miami" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
Apr 05, 2024
Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, "The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market" (Bloomsbury. 2023)
Apr 05, 2024
Diane Winston, "Righting the American Dream: How the Media Mainstreamed Reagan's Evangelical Vision" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Apr 01, 2024
Teresa Ghilarducci, "Work, Retire, Repeat: The Uncertainty of Retirement in the New Economy" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Mar 30, 2024
Jeanelle K. Hope and Bill V. Mullen, "The Black Antifascist Tradition: Fighting Back from Anti-Lynching to Abolition" (Haymarket Books, 2024)
Mar 29, 2024
Françoise N. Hamlin and Charles W. McKinney, "From Rights to Lives: The Evolution of the Black Freedom Struggle" (Vanderbilt UP, 2024)
Mar 29, 2024
Paul Carter, "Richard Nixon: California's Native Son" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
Mar 29, 2024
Party People: Candidates and Party Evolution
Mar 27, 2024
William W. Parsons and Regina M. Matheson, "The Pink Wave: Women Running for Office After Trump" (NYU Press, 2023)
Mar 26, 2024
Emily Conroy-Krutz, "Missionary Diplomacy: Religion and Nineteenth-Century American Foreign Relations" (Cornell UP, 2024)
Mar 24, 2024
Looking into the Heart of Arizona: A Discussion with Author Tom Zoellner
Mar 21, 2024
Christina Gish Hill et al., "National Parks, Native Sovereignty: Experiments in Collaboration" (U Oklahoma Press, 2024)
Mar 20, 2024
Andrew J. Kirkendall, "Hemispheric Alliances: Liberal Democrats and Cold War Latin America" (UNC Press, 2022)
Mar 16, 2024
Janine Giordano Drake, "The Gospel of Church: How Mainline Protestants Vilified Christian Socialism and Fractured the Labor Movement" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Mar 13, 2024
Reading Taylor Swift as a Cultural and Political Text
Mar 11, 2024
Amy Paeth, "The American Poet Laureate" A History of U.S. Poetry and the State" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Mar 11, 2024
Sharon D. Wright Austin, "Political Black Girl Magic: The Elections and Governance of Black Female Mayors" (Temple UP, 2023)
Mar 11, 2024
On America’s Blind Spot Towards the Palestinians
Mar 09, 2024
Benjamin J. Pauli, "Flint Fights Back: Environmental Justice and Democracy in the Flint Water Crisis" (MIT Press, 2019)
Mar 09, 2024
Jacqueline Kennelly, "Burnt by Democracy: Youth, Inequality, and the Erosion of Civic Life" (U Toronto Press, 2023)
Mar 09, 2024
Freedom in the Academy: A Conversation with Niall Ferguson
Mar 05, 2024
Alvita Akiboh, "Imperial Material: National Symbols in the US Colonial Empire" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Mar 03, 2024
David P. Gushee, "Defending Democracy from Its Christian Enemies" (William B. Eerdmans, 2023)
Mar 02, 2024
Carly Goodman, "Dreamland: America's Immigration Lottery in an Age of Restriction" (UNC Press, 2023)
Feb 29, 2024
Leadership in Business, Leadership Abroad: A Conversation with Dave McCormick *96
Feb 28, 2024
Gerald Epstein, "Busting the Bankers' Club: Finance for the Rest of Us" (U California Press, 2024)
Feb 28, 2024
How Democracies Die . . . and How They May Survive with Daniel Ziblatt
Feb 27, 2024
Christopher J. Devine, "I’m Here to Ask for Your Vote: How Presidential Campaign Visits Influence Voters" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Feb 24, 2024
Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson, "American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15" (FSG, 2023)
Feb 20, 2024
Norman Hill and Velma Murphy Hill, "Climbing the Rough Side of the Mountain: The Extraordinary Story of Love, Civil Rights, and Labor Activism" (Regalo Press, 2023)
Feb 17, 2024
Max Felker-Kantor, "DARE to Say No: Policing and the War on Drugs in Schools" (UNC Press, 2023)
Feb 17, 2024
Richard L. Hasen, "A Real Right to Vote: How a Constitutional Amendment Can Safeguard American Democracy" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Feb 15, 2024
Steven Harvey, "The Beloved Republic" (Wandering Aengus Press, 2023)
Feb 15, 2024
Marisol LeBrón, "Policing Life and Death: Race, Violence, and Resistance in Puerto Rico" (U California Press, 2019)
Feb 14, 2024
Kimberly Meltzer, “From News to Talk: The Expansion of Opinion and Commentary in U.S. Journalism” (SUNY Press, 2019)
Feb 14, 2024
Josh Fernandez, "The Hands That Crafted the Bomb: The Making of a Lifelong Antifascist" (PM Press, 2024)
Feb 13, 2024
James L. Gibson and Michael J. Nelson, "Judging Inequality: State Supreme Courts and the Inequality Crisis" (Russell Sage, 2021)
Feb 12, 2024
Andrius Gališanka, "John Rawls: The Path to a Theory of Justice" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Feb 12, 2024
Jeanne Theoharis, "The Strange Careers of the Jim Crow North: Segregation and Struggle outside of the South" (NYU Press, 2019)
Feb 12, 2024
William Gale, "Fiscal Therapy: Curing America's Debt Addiction and Investing in the Future" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Feb 12, 2024
Daniel Immerwahr, "How to Hide an Empire: The History of the Greater United States" (FSG, 2019)
Feb 11, 2024
The Future of the Future: A Discussion with Jonathan White
Feb 07, 2024
Matthew Kruer, "Time of Anarchy: Indigenous Power and the Crisis of Colonialism in Early America" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Feb 07, 2024
Calvin John Smiley, "Purgatory Citizenship: Reentry, Race, and Abolition" (U California Press, 2023)
Feb 07, 2024
Brydie Kosmina, "Feminist Afterlives of the Witch: Popular Culture, Memory, Activism" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)
Feb 06, 2024
Robert Alpert et al., "Diseased Cinema: Plagues, Pandemics and Zombies in American Movies" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
Feb 06, 2024
Todd Mildfelt and David D. Schafer, "Abolitionist of the Most Dangerous Kind: James Montgomery and His War on Slavery" (U Oklahoma Press, 2023)
Feb 05, 2024
Elizabeth Varon, "Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South" (Simon & Schuster, 2023)
Feb 04, 2024
George Fisher, "Beware Euphoria: The Moral Roots and Racial Myths of America's War on Drugs" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Feb 03, 2024
Marc Arsell Robinson, "Washington State Rising: Black Power on Campus in the Pacific Northwest" (NYU Press, 2023)
Feb 02, 2024
Georgina Hickey, "Breaking the Gender Code: Women and Urban Public Space in the Twentieth-Century United States" (U Texas Press, 2023)
Feb 02, 2024
Ismar Volić, "Making Democracy Count: How Mathematics Improves Voting, Electoral Maps, and Representation" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Feb 01, 2024
Lisa Herzog, "Citizen Knowledge: Markets, Experts, and the Infrastructure of Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Feb 01, 2024
Matthew D. Lassiter, "The Suburban Crisis: White America and the War on Drugs" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Feb 01, 2024
Alberto Toscano, "Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis" (Verso, 2023)
Jan 31, 2024
Eviane Leidig, "The Women of the Far Right: Social Media Influencers and Online Radicalization" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Jan 31, 2024
Colorblindness and the Classics: A Conversation with Andre Archie
Jan 30, 2024
Hajar Yazdiha, "The Struggle for the People’s King: How Politics Transforms the Memory of the Civil Rights Movement" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Jan 30, 2024
On Authoritarianism: A Discussion with Author and Political Scientist Matthew C. MacWilliams
Jan 29, 2024
Sarah Diefendorf, "The Holy Vote: Inequality and Anxiety Among White Evangelicals" (U California Press, 2023)
Jan 29, 2024
Sandro Galea, "Within Reason: A Liberal Public Health for an Illiberal Time" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Jan 28, 2024
Caleb Wellum, "Energizing Neoliberalism: The 1970s Energy Crisis and the Making of Modern America" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
Jan 26, 2024
Ethel Morgan Smith, "Path to Grace: Reimagining the Civil Rights Movement" (UP of Mississippi, 2023)
Jan 26, 2024
Mark Zachary Taylor, "Presidential Leadership in Feeble Times: Explaining Executive Power in the Gilded Age" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jan 25, 2024
Damon Scott, "The City Aroused: Queer Places and Urban Redevelopment in Postwar San Francisco" (U Texas Press, 2024)
Jan 25, 2024
James R. Fichter, "Tea: Consumption, Politics, and Revolution, 1773–1776" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Jan 24, 2024
On Zionism and the Left: A Discussion with Author and Cultural Critic Susie Linfield
Jan 22, 2024
Kareem R. Muhammad, "The Fight for Black Empowerment in the USA: America’s Last Hope" (Routledge, 2023)
Jan 22, 2024
Robert C. Post, "The Taft Court (10): Making Law for a Divided Nation, 1921–1930" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Jan 19, 2024
Neall W. Pogue, "The Nature of the Religious Right: The Struggle between Conservative Evangelicals and the Environmental Movement" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Jan 18, 2024
Scott Gac, "Born in Blood: Violence and the Making of America" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Jan 18, 2024
Patricia Strach and Kathleen S. Sullivan, "The Politics of Trash: How Governments Used Corruption to Clean Cities, 1890–1929" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Jan 18, 2024
Geoffrey Levin, "Our Palestine Question: Israel and American Jewish Dissent, 1948-1978" (Yale UP, 2023)
Jan 16, 2024
Dana R. Fisher, "Saving Ourselves: From Climate Shocks to Climate Action" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Jan 15, 2024
Alexandra Filindra, "Race, Rights, and Rifles: The Origins of the NRA and Contemporary Gun Culture" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Jan 15, 2024
Jeffrey A. Friedman, "The Commander-in-Chief Test: Public Opinion and the Politics of Image-Making in US Foreign Policy" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Jan 14, 2024
Emily Brooks, "Gotham’s War Within a War: Policing and the Birth of Law-and-Order Liberalism in World War II-Era New York City" (UNC Press, 2023)
Jan 13, 2024
Sam Lebovic, "State of Silence: The Espionage Act and the Rise of America's Secrecy Regime" (Basic Book, 2023)
Jan 12, 2024
Jennifer Thomson, "The Wild and the Toxic: American Environmentalism and the Politics of Health" (UNC Press, 2019)
Jan 10, 2024
Steven Rogers, "Accountability in State Legislatures" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Jan 08, 2024
Stephen M. Engel and Timothy S. Lyle, "Disrupting Dignity: Rethinking Power and Progress in LGBTQ Lives" (NYU Press, 2021)
Jan 02, 2024
Gregg L. Frazer, "God against the Revolution: The Loyalist Clergy’s Case Against the American Revolution" (UP of Kansas, 2018)
Dec 31, 2023
Claudia Smith Brinson, "Stories of Struggle: The Clash over Civil Rights in South Carolina" (U South Carolina Press, 2020)
Dec 29, 2023
D. B. Maroon, "Black Lives, American Love: Essays on Race and Resilience" (Lawrence Hill Books, 2023)
Dec 28, 2023
David T. Beito, "The New Deal's War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR's Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance" (Independent Institute, 2023)
Dec 27, 2023
Julia F. Irwin, "Catastrophic Diplomacy: US Foreign Disaster Assistance in the American Century" (UNC Press, 2023)
Dec 27, 2023
Thomas A. Schwartz, "Henry Kissinger and American Power: A Political Biography" (Hill and Wang, 2020)
Dec 26, 2023
Laurence Jurdem, "The Rough Rider and the Professor: Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge, and the Friendship that Changed American History" (Simon and Schuster, 2023)
Dec 24, 2023
James M. Lawson Jr. et al., "Revolutionary Nonviolence: Organizing for Freedom" (U California Press, 2022)
Dec 24, 2023
David Craig, "Apocalypse Television: How The Day After Helped Save the World" (Applause Books, 2023)
Dec 20, 2023
Speech Unbound: A Conversation with Nadine Strossen
Dec 19, 2023
Katlyn Marie Carter, "Democracy in Darkness: Secrecy and Transparency in the Age of Revolutions" (Yale UP, 2023)
Dec 19, 2023
Jack D. Noe, "Contesting Commemoration: The 1876 Centennial, Independence Day, and the Reconstruction-Era South" (LSU Press, 2021)
Dec 18, 2023
Sara Chatfield, "In Her Own Name: The Politics of Women’s Rights Before Suffrage" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Dec 18, 2023
Sisterhood
Dec 16, 2023
Gary J. Bass, "Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia" (Knopf, 2023)
Dec 15, 2023
Troels Burchall Henningsen, "Western Intervention and Informal Politics: Simulated Statebuilding and Failed Reforms" (Routledge, 2021)
Dec 15, 2023
Melinda N. Ritchie, "Backdoor Lawmaking: Evading Obstacles in the US Congress" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Dec 12, 2023
Michael W. Doyle, "Cold Peace: Avoiding the New Cold War" (Liveright, 2023)
Dec 12, 2023
David Steele, "It Was Always a Choice: Picking Up the Baton of Athlete Activism" (Temple UP, 2022)
Dec 12, 2023
Matthew Dennis, "American Relics and the Politics of Public Memory" (U Massachusetts Press, 2023)
Dec 10, 2023
Ruth Ben-Ghiat on Threats to Democracy and H.L. Mencken’s "Notes on Democracy"
Dec 09, 2023
Katharine M. Millar, "Support the Troops: Military Obligation, Gender, and the Making of Political Community" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Dec 08, 2023
The Future of the State: A Discussion with Graeme Garrard
Dec 04, 2023
Tracy E. Perkins, "Evolution of a Movement: Four Decades of California Environmental Justice Activism" (U California Press, 2022)
Dec 03, 2023
Chhaya Kolavalli, "Well-Intentioned Whiteness: Green Urban Development and Black Resistance in Kansas City" (U Georgia Press, 2023)
Dec 02, 2023
On “Henry Kissinger and His World” with author Barry Gewen
Nov 30, 2023
Russ Castronovo, "American Insecurity and the Origins of Vulnerability" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Nov 30, 2023
Charles S. Maier, "The Project-State and Its Rivals: A New History of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Nov 29, 2023
Salim Yaqub, "Winds of Hope, Storms of Discord: The United States since 1945" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Nov 28, 2023
Brian D. Blankenship, "The Burden-Sharing Dilemma: Coercive Diplomacy in US Alliance Politics" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Nov 26, 2023
Edward L. Ayers, "American Visions: The United States, 1800-1860" (Norton, 2023)
Nov 25, 2023
Diane Carol Fujino, "Nisei Radicals: The Feminist Poetics and Transformative Ministry of Mitsuye Yamada and Michael Yasutake" (U Washington Press, 2020)
Nov 25, 2023
Daniel Shea and Nicholas F. Jacobs, "The Rural Voter: The Politics of Place and the Disuniting of America" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Nov 24, 2023
Boris Heersink, "National Party Organizations and Party Brands in American Politics" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Nov 23, 2023
William S. Kiser, "Illusions of Empire: The Civil War and Reconstruction in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
Nov 23, 2023
Cody D. Ewert, "Making Schools American: Nationalism and the Origin of Modern Educational Politics" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)
Nov 21, 2023
The US State Department and Ever-Changing Global Politics
Nov 21, 2023
Leonard Grob and John K. Roth, "Warnings: The Holocaust, Ukraine, and Endangered American Democracy" (Cascade Books, 2023)
Nov 20, 2023
Seán Creagh, "The Wolfhounds of Irish-American Nationalism: A History of Clan Na Gael, 1867-Present" (Peter Lang, 2023)
Nov 20, 2023
The Future of the Rural-Urban Divide: A Discussion with Nicholas F. Jacobs and Daniel M. Shea
Nov 20, 2023
Chris Cutrone, "The Death of the Millennial Left: Interventions: 2006-2022" (Sublation Media, 2023)
Nov 19, 2023
Robert P. George's 'Making Men Moral': A 30th Anniversary Conference
Nov 18, 2023
Political Polarisation: Have We Got It Wrong?
Nov 17, 2023
Charisse Burden-Stelly, "Black Scare/Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Nov 17, 2023
Where Have All the Democrats Gone?
Nov 16, 2023
Brigid Cohen, "Musical Migration and Imperial New York: Early Cold War Scenes" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Nov 15, 2023
Jeffrey Scholes, "Christianity, Race, and Sport" (Routledge, 2021)
Nov 14, 2023
The Future of World Disorder: A Discussion with Peter R. Neumann
Nov 14, 2023
Jennifer Burns on the Life and Lasting Influence of Milton Friedman
Nov 14, 2023
Juliet Hooker, "Black Grief/White Grievance: The Politics of Loss" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Nov 13, 2023
Brendan J. Doherty, "Fundraiser in Chief: Presidents and the Politics of Campaign Cash" (UP of Kansas, 2023)
Nov 13, 2023
David Myer Temin, "Remapping Sovereignty: Decolonization and Self-Determination in North American Indigenous Political Thought" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Nov 13, 2023
Elizabeth Anderson, "Hijacked: How Neoliberalism Turned the Work Ethic against Workers and How Workers Can Take It Back" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Nov 13, 2023
Eric M. Patashnik, "Countermobilization: Policy Feedback and Backlash in a Polarized Age" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Nov 12, 2023
Shelley Fraser Mickle, "White House Wild Child: How Alice Roosevelt Broke All the Rules and Won the Heart of America" (Imagine, 2023)
Nov 11, 2023
Daniel Macfarlane, "Natural Allies: Environment, Energy, and the History of US-Canada Relations" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2023)
Nov 11, 2023
Steven Simon, "Grand Delusion: The Rise and Fall of American Ambition in the Middle East" (Penguin, 2023)
Nov 11, 2023
Xaq Frohlich, "From Label to Table: Regulating Food in America in the Information Age" (U California Press, 2023)
Nov 10, 2023
Speak Freely: The Princeton Principles
Nov 07, 2023
Matthew J. Clavin, "Symbols of Freedom: Slavery and Resistance Before the Civil War" (NYU Press, 2023)
Nov 07, 2023
Dannagal Goldthwaite Young, "Wrong: How Media, Politics, and Identity Drive Our Appetite for Misinformation" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
Nov 06, 2023
Shannon McKenna Schmidt, "The First Lady of World War II: Eleanor Roosevelt's Daring Journey to the Frontlines and Back" (Sourcebooks, 2023)
Nov 06, 2023
Drew A. Swanson, "A Man of Bad Reputation: The Murder of John Stephens and the Contested Landscape of North Carolina Reconstruction" (UNC Press, 2023)
Nov 04, 2023
Alexandra Hudson, "The Soul of Civility: Timeless Principles to Heal Society and Ourselves" (St. Martin's Press, 2023)
Nov 02, 2023
Melvin L. Rogers, "The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Nov 01, 2023
The Future of Cancelling: A Conversation with Greg Lukianoff
Nov 01, 2023
Woodrow Wilson: Patrick Weil’s "The Madman in the White House"
Oct 31, 2023
Scott Eyman, "Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided" (Simon & Schuster, 2023)
Oct 31, 2023
Dara Z. Strolovitch, "When Bad Things Happen to Privileged People: Race, Gender, and What Makes a Crisis in America" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Oct 31, 2023
Claire Jean Kim, "Asian Americans in an Anti-Black World" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Oct 30, 2023
Norman Solomon, "War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine" (New Press, 2023)
Oct 28, 2023
Denise D. Meringolo, "Radical Roots: Public History and a Tradition of Social Justice Activism" (Amherst College Press, 2021)
Oct 26, 2023
Greg Glasgow and Kathryn Mayer, "Disneyland on the Mountain: Walt, the Environmentalists, and the Ski Resort That Never Was" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)
Oct 25, 2023
Scott Kamen, "From Union Halls to the Suburbs: Americans for Democratic Action and the Transformation of Postwar Liberalism" (U Massachusetts Press, 2023)
Oct 25, 2023
Jeff Kosseff, "Liar in a Crowded Theater: Freedom of Speech in a World of Misinformation" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
Oct 24, 2023
Aaron Tang, "Supreme Hubris: How Overconfidence Is Destroying the Court--And How We Can Fix It" (Yale UP, 2023)
Oct 23, 2023
Decolonizing Praxis
Oct 23, 2023
Kevin Passmore, "Fascism: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2014)
Oct 22, 2023
Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, "American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer" (Vintage, 2006)
Oct 21, 2023
Jason C. Bivins, "Embattled America: The Rise of Anti-Politics and America's Obsession with Religion" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Oct 21, 2023
Diana Furchtgott-Roth on Serving In Four U.S. Presidential Administrations, Environmental Regulation, and Infrastructure
Oct 21, 2023
Allison M. Prasch, "The World Is Our Stage: The Global Rhetorical Presidency and the Cold War" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Oct 19, 2023
The Future of Incarceration: A Discussion with Colleen P. Eren
Oct 18, 2023
Michael A. Robinson, "Dangerous Instrument: Political Polarization and US Civil-Military Relations" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Oct 17, 2023
Colin Dickey, "Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy" (Viking, 2023)
Oct 17, 2023
Christopher John Bosso, "Why SNAP Works: A Political History--And Defense--of the Food Stamp Program" (U California Press, 2023)
Oct 14, 2023
Dennis C. Rasmussen, "The Constitution's Penman: Gouverneur Morris and the Creation of America's Basic Charter" (UP of Kansas, 2023)
Oct 12, 2023
Lainey Newman and Theda Skocpol, "Rust Belt Union Blues: Why Working-Class Voters Are Turning Away from the Democratic Party" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Oct 12, 2023
John Arena, "Expelling Public Schools: How Antiracist Politics Enable School Privatization in Newark" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
Oct 09, 2023
Aurelian Craiutu, "Why Not Moderation?: Letters to Young Radicals" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Oct 09, 2023
Tariq D. Khan, "The Republic Shall be Kept Clean: How Settler Colonial Violence Shaped Antileft Repression" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
Oct 09, 2023
Andrew Monteith, "Christian Nationalism and the Birth of the War on Drugs" (NYU Press, 2023)
Oct 08, 2023
Chrissy Yee Lau, "New Women of Empire: Gendered Politics and Racial Uplift in Interwar Japanese America" (U Washington Press, 2022)
Oct 08, 2023
Charlotte Gray, "Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons: The Lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt" (Simon & Schuster, 2023)
Oct 07, 2023
Melissa Estes Blair, "Bringing Home the White House: The Hidden History of Women Who Shaped the Presidency in the Twentieth Century" (U Georgia Press, 2023)
Oct 06, 2023
James N. Druckman and Elizabeth A. Sharrow, "Equality Unfulfilled: How Title IX's Policy Design Undermines Change to College Sports" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Oct 05, 2023
Adrian Chastain Weimer, "A Constitutional Culture: New England and the Struggle Against Arbitrary Rule in the Restoration Empire" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
Oct 03, 2023
40 Years Since Milton Friedman‘s ‘Free To Choose‘
Oct 02, 2023
Aaron Tang, "Supreme Hubris: How Overconfidence Is Destroying the Court--And How We Can Fix It" (Yale UP, 2023)
Sep 30, 2023
Sara Marcus, "Political Disappointment: A Cultural History from Reconstruction to the AIDS Crisis" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Sep 30, 2023
Sarah Sunn Bush and Lauren Prather, "Monitors and Meddlers: How Foreign Actors Influence Local Trust in Elections" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Sep 28, 2023
The Civic Bargain: A Conversation with Josiah Ober on Ancients and Moderns
Sep 26, 2023
Dylan C. Penningroth, "Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights" (Liveright, 2023)
Sep 26, 2023
Laura F. Edwards, "The People and Their Peace: Legal Culture and the Transformation of Inequality in the Post-Revolutionary South" (UNC Press, 2009)
Sep 25, 2023
Mark Thomas Edwards, "Walter Lippmann: American Skeptic, American Pastor" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Sep 25, 2023
James Greenwood-Reeves, "Justifying Violent Protest: Law and Morality in Democratic States" (Routledge, 2023)
Sep 23, 2023
Diana Rickard, "The New True Crime: How the Rise of Serialized Storytelling Is Transforming Innocence" (NYU Press, 2023)
Sep 23, 2023
Todd E. Vachon, "Clean Air and Good Jobs: U.S. Labor and the Struggle for Climate Justice" (Temple UP, 2023)
Sep 22, 2023
Zebulon Vance Miletsky, "Before Busing: A History of Boston's Long Black Freedom Struggle" (UNC Press, 2022)
Sep 22, 2023
David Cunningham, January 6th and Asymmetrical Policing (JP, EF)
Sep 21, 2023
Christopher F. Zurn, "Splitsville USA: A Democratic Argument for Breaking Up the United States" (Routledge, 2023)
Sep 16, 2023
The Future of Anarchism: A Discussion with Ruth Kinna
Sep 16, 2023
Christopher Paul Harris, "To Build a Black Future: The Radical Politics of Joy, Pain, and Care" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Sep 15, 2023
Zachary Parolin, "Poverty in the Pandemic: Policy Lessons from COVID-19" (Russell Sage Foundation, 2023)
Sep 15, 2023
Emilee Booth Chapman, "Election Day: How We Vote and What It Means for Democracy" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Sep 14, 2023
Matthew McManus, "The Political Right and Equality: Turning Back the Tide of Egalitarian Modernity" (Routledge, 2023)
Sep 13, 2023
Michèle Lamont, "Seeing Others: How Recognition Works-And How It Can Heal a Divided World" (Atria, 2023)
Sep 13, 2023
Anthony B. Sanders, "Baby Ninth Amendments: How Americans Embraced Unenumerated Rights and Why It Matters" (U Michigan Press, 2023)
Sep 13, 2023
The Shadow War between America and Russia
Sep 13, 2023
A Better Way to Buy Books
Sep 12, 2023
William Darity et al., "The Black Reparations Project: A Handbook for Racial Justice" (U California Press, 2023)
Sep 12, 2023
Gilberto Rosas, "Unsettling: The El Paso Massacre, Resurgent White Nationalism, and the US-Mexico Border" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
Sep 12, 2023
Postscript: How Firearms Fuel Domestic Violence in the US
Sep 11, 2023
Al Davidoff, "Unionizing the Ivory Tower: Cornell Workers' Fifteen-Year Fight for Justice and a Living Wage" (ILR Press, 2023)
Sep 04, 2023
Zachary Jacobson, "On Nixon's Madness: An Emotional History" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
Sep 03, 2023
Kathryn J. Edin et al., "The Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America" (Mariner Books, 2023)
Sep 01, 2023
Sarah R. Coleman, "The Walls Within: The Politics of Immigration in Modern America" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Aug 31, 2023
Tomiko Brown-Nagin, "Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality" (Knopf Doubleday, 2023)
Aug 30, 2023
How Should Protestants Engage With Natural Law Theory?
Aug 29, 2023
On “Henry Kissinger and His World” with author Barry Gewen
Aug 29, 2023
Beverly C. Tomek, "Slavery and Abolition in Pennsylvania" (Temple UP, 2021)
Aug 27, 2023
Marisa Holmes, "Organizing Occupy Wall Street: This is Just Practice" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
Aug 26, 2023
The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI
Aug 25, 2023
On the (Still Bright) Future of Nostalgia
Aug 24, 2023
Cara Fitzpatrick, "The Death of Public School: How Conservatives Won the War Over Education in America" (Basic Books, 2023)
Aug 23, 2023
Postscript: Guns, Violence, and the Law: How Federal Courts are Trying to Figure Out the Second Amendment
Aug 22, 2023
Morgan L. W. Hazelton et al., "The Elevator Effect: Contact and Collegiality in the American Judiciary" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Aug 21, 2023
Liran Einav and Amy Finkelstein, "We've Got You Covered: Rebooting American Health Care" (Penguin, 2023)
Aug 21, 2023
Peter Moore, "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness: Britain and the American Dream (1740–1776)" ( FSG, 2023)
Aug 20, 2023
Jean M. Twenge, "Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents—and What They Mean for America's Future" (Atria, 2023)
Aug 20, 2023
Becoming Justice Thomas
Aug 20, 2023
Samuel Moyn, "Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times" (Yale UP, 2023)
Aug 19, 2023
The Future of Traditionalism: A Discussion with Mark J. Sedgwick
Aug 18, 2023
Bobby J. Smith II, "Food Power Politics: The Food Story of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement" (UNC Press, 2023)
Aug 16, 2023
Benjamin Y. Fong, "Quick Fixes: Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge" (Verso, 2023)
Aug 15, 2023
Take Back the Center: Progressive Taxation for a New Progressive Agenda
Aug 15, 2023
How Uber Disrupted Washington, D.C.: A Conversation with Katie Wells and Kafui Attoh
Aug 14, 2023
Nicholas Tochka, "Rocking in the Free World: Popular Music and the Politics of Freedom in Postwar America" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Aug 14, 2023
Ashley Robertson Preston, "Mary Mcleod Bethune the Pan-Africanist" (UP of Florida, 2023)
Aug 12, 2023
Sophie Bjork-James, "The Divine Institution: White Evangelicalism's Politics of the Family" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
Aug 12, 2023
Michael J. Diamond, "Ruptures in the American Psyche: Containing Destructive Populism in Perilous Times" (Phoenix Publishing, 2022)
Aug 11, 2023
Len Niehoff and Thomas Sullivan, "Free Speech: From Core Values to Current Debates" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Aug 09, 2023
Postscript: Protecting the Public? Guns, Intimate Partner Violence, and the US Supreme Court
Aug 07, 2023
Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey, "Cross-Border Cosmopolitans: The Making of a Pan-African North America" (UNC Press, 2023)
Aug 04, 2023
Olivier Burtin, "A Nation of Veterans: War, Citizenship, and the Welfare State in Modern America" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
Aug 03, 2023
Colleen M. Grogan, "Grow and Hide: The History of America's Health Care State" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Aug 02, 2023
Talking Clarence Thomas: A Conversation with Amul Thapar
Aug 01, 2023
Nick Bunker, "In the Shadow of Fear: America and the World In 1950" (Basic Books, 2023)
Aug 01, 2023
Kathryn Cramer Brownell, "24/7 Politics: Cable Television and the Fragmenting of America from Watergate to Fox News" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Aug 01, 2023
Blair Kelley, "Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class" (LIveright, 2023)
Jul 31, 2023
Phil Klay, "Uncertain Ground: Citizenship in an Age of Endless, Invisible War" (Penguin, 2022)
Jul 30, 2023
Manfred B. Steger and Ravi K. Roy, "Neoliberalism: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Jul 30, 2023
Adom Getachew and Jennifer Pitts eds. "W. E. B. Du Bois: International Thought" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Jul 30, 2023
Margaret M. Power, "Solidarity Across the Americas: The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and Anti-Imperialism" (UNC Press, 2023)
Jul 29, 2023
Benjamin Studebaker, "The Chronic Crisis of American Democracy: The Way Is Shut" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)
Jul 28, 2023
Penelope Ingram, "Imperiled Whiteness: How Hollywood and Media Make Race in 'Postracial' America" (UP of Mississippi, 2023)
Jul 26, 2023
Is Democracy in Trouble?
Jul 25, 2023
Nicole Evelina, "America's Forgotten Suffragists: Virginia and Francis Minor" (Two Dot Books, 2023)
Jul 25, 2023
Andrew Quilty, "August in Kabul: America's Last Days in Afghanistan" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Jul 24, 2023
Postscript: Is it Unconstitutional to Take Guns Away from Domestic Abusers?
Jul 24, 2023
Penny M. Von Eschen, "Paradoxes of Nostalgia: Cold War Triumphalism and Global Disorder Since 1989" (Duke UP, 2022)
Jul 19, 2023
Mere Natural Law: A Conversation with Hadley Arkes
Jul 18, 2023
Ariane Chebel d'Appollonia, "Violent America: The Dynamics of Identity Politics in a Multiracial Society" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Jul 18, 2023
Anne Phillips, "Unconditional Equals" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Jul 18, 2023
Brendan O'Brien, "Homesick: Why Housing Is Unaffordable and How We Can Change It" (Chicago Review Press, 2023)
Jul 18, 2023
Samuel Issacharoff, "Democracy Unmoored: Populism and the Corruption of Popular Sovereignty" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jul 15, 2023
Nour Halabi, "Radical Hospitality: American Policy, Media, and Immigration" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
Jul 13, 2023
Morgan L. W. Hazelton and Rachael K. Hinkle, "Persuading the Supreme Court: The Significance of Briefs in Judicial Decision-Making" (UP Kansas, 2022)
Jul 10, 2023
Brent Cebul, "Illusions of Progress: Business, Poverty, and Liberalism in the American Century" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
Jul 09, 2023
Kristina Horn Sheeler and Karrin Vasby Anderson, "Woman President: Confronting Postfeminist Political Culture" (Texas A&M Press, 2013)
Jul 06, 2023
Studying the Pipeline to Politics for Women
Jul 06, 2023
Greg Berman and Aubrey Fox, "Gradual: The Case for Incremental Change in a Radical Age" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jul 05, 2023
Ben Terris, "The Big Break: The Gamblers, Party Animals, and True Believers Trying to Win in Washington While America Loses Its Mind" (Twelve, 2023)
Jul 05, 2023
The Supreme Court's Past, Present, and Future: A Conversation with John Yoo
Jul 03, 2023
G. Edward White, "Law in American History, Volume III: 1930-2000" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Jul 02, 2023
Kevin J. Elliott, "Democracy for Busy People" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Jul 01, 2023
Michael O'Hanlon, "Military History for the Modern Strategist: America's Major Wars Since 1861" (Brookings, 2023)
Jul 01, 2023
Danielle Allen, "Justice by Means of Democracy" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Jun 29, 2023
Eileen V. Wallis, "California and the Politics of Disability, 1850–1970" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
Jun 28, 2023
Jack Schneider and Jennifer Berkshire, "A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door: The Dismantling of Public Education and the Future of School" (The New Press, 2023)
Jun 28, 2023
Philip A. Wallach, "Why Congress" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jun 27, 2023
Nicholas Dagen Bloom, "The Great American Transit Disaster: A Century of Austerity, Auto-Centric Planning, and White Flight" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Jun 27, 2023
Sara Salman, "The Shaming State: How the U.S. Treats Citizens in Need" (NYU Press, 2023)
Jun 27, 2023
Stephen Vladeck, "The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic" (Basic Books, 2023)
Jun 26, 2023
Josh Shepperd, "Shadow of the New Deal: The Victory of Public Broadcasting" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
Jun 26, 2023
Bradley C. S. Watson, "Progressivism: The Strange History of a Radical Idea" (U Notre Dame Press, 2020)
Jun 25, 2023
Craig Nelson, "V Is For Victory: Franklin Roosevelt's American Revolution and the Triumph of World War II" (Scribner, 2023)
Jun 24, 2023
The Future of Leadership: A Discussion with Amanda Goodall
Jun 24, 2023
Postscript: Politics, Identity, and the US Supreme Court
Jun 23, 2023
Erik Kojola, "Mining the Heartland: Nature, Place, and Populism on the Iron Range" (NYU Press, 2023)
Jun 23, 2023
Samuel G. Freedman, "Into the Bright Sunshine: Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jun 21, 2023
Giulia Pecorella, "The United States of America and the Crime of Aggression" (Routledge, 2021)
Jun 21, 2023
The Ascendance of Social Conservatism in the Public Square
Jun 20, 2023
M. Todd Bennett, "Neither Confirm Nor Deny: How the Glomar Mission Shielded the CIA from Transparency" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Jun 20, 2023
Frank Costigliola, "Kennan: A Life Between Worlds" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Jun 19, 2023
The Future of Politicized Narratives: A Discussion with Andreas Krieg
Jun 13, 2023
The Rhetoric of Decline
Jun 13, 2023
Patrick J. Charles, "Vote Gun: How Gun Rights Became Politicized in the United States" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Jun 10, 2023
Feminism Against Progress: A Conversation with Mary Harrington
Jun 06, 2023
Erik J. Dahl, "The COVID-19 Intelligence Failure: Why Warning Was Not Enough" (Georgetown UP, 2023)
Jun 06, 2023
Lorenzo Costaguta, "Workers of All Colors Unite: Race and the Origins of American Socialism" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
Jun 03, 2023
You Are Here: A Field Guide for Navigating Polarized Speech, Conspiracy Theories, and Our Polluted Media Landscape
Jun 02, 2023
Mapping the American Right: A Conversation with the American Enterprise Institute’s Robert Doar
Jun 02, 2023
Assessing Affirmative Action: A Conversation with Jason Riley
May 29, 2023
The Hundred Year War for the American Right: A Conversation with Matthew Continetti
May 25, 2023
Reclaiming a Lost Vision of Feminism: A Conversation with Erika Bachiochi
May 23, 2023
Truth, Fiction, and Student Loan Forgiveness: A Conversation with Beth Akers
May 22, 2023
Rebecca Brückmann, "Massive Resistance and Southern Womanhood: White Women, Class, and Segregation" (U Georgia Press, 2021)
May 22, 2023
Christopher H. Evans, "Do Everything: The Biography of Frances Willard" (Oxford UP, 2022)
May 21, 2023
Where Did Conservatism Go? A Conversation with Yoram Hazony
May 20, 2023
American Conservatism, Natural Law, and the Good Life: A Conversation with Robert P. George
May 20, 2023
Kathryn J. McGarr, "City of Newsmen: Public Lies and Professional Secrets in Cold War Washington" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
May 19, 2023
America & Democracy Ep. 5: Brandon Terry on MLK
May 19, 2023
Mark Paul, "The Ends of Freedom: Reclaiming America's Lost Promise of Economic Rights" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
May 18, 2023
Ralph Nader and Bruce Fein, "The Incommunicados" (Center for Study of Responsive Law, 2023)
May 18, 2023
Thom Shanker and Andrew Hoehn, "Age of Danger: Keeping America Safe in an Era of New Superpowers, New Weapons, and New Threats" (Hachette Books, 2023)
May 17, 2023
Misinformed: The Covid Lab Leak Theory and the Politics of Misinformation
May 17, 2023
America & Democracy Ep. 3: Carol A. Stabile on the Red Scare
May 16, 2023
Kody W. Cooper and Justin Buckley Dyer, "The Classical and Christian Origins of American Politics: Political Theology, Natural Law, and the American Founding" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
May 16, 2023
Matthew Rhodes-Purdy et al., "The Age of Discontent: Populism, Extremism, and Conspiracy Theories in Contemporary Democracies" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
May 15, 2023
Recovering the American Idea with Robert P. George, Ryan Anderson, Alexandra DeSanctis, and Antonin Scalia
May 12, 2023
Maria L. Quintana, "Contracting Freedom: Race, Empire, and U.S. Guestworker Programs" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
May 12, 2023
Timothy Sandefur, "Freedom's Furies: How Isabel Paterson, Rose Wilder Lane, and Ayn Rand Found Freedom in an Age of Darkness" (Cato Institute, 2022)
May 11, 2023
The Primal Screams of Identity Politics: A Conversation with Mary Eberstadt
May 11, 2023
The Politicization of Science: A Conversation with Dorian Abbot, Anna Krylov, David Romps, and Bernhardt Trout
May 10, 2023
Harry V. Jaffa and the Fight for America: A Conversation with Glenn Ellmers
May 09, 2023
Christianity and the American Founding with Mark David Hall
May 09, 2023
Gregory Harms, "No Politics, No Religion?: How America's Code of Conduct Conceals Our Unity" (Political Animal Press, 2022)
May 09, 2023
Kyla Sommers, "When the Smoke Cleared: The 1968 Rebellion and the Unfinished Battle for Civil Rights in the Nation's Capital" (New Press, 2023)
May 08, 2023
Matt Zwolinski and John Tomasi, "The Individualists: Radicals, Reactionaries, and the Struggle for the Soul of Libertarianism" (Princeton UP, 2023)
May 07, 2023
Jonathan Eig, "King: A Life" (FSG, 2023)
May 07, 2023
Carceral Capitalism
May 05, 2023
Journalistic Collaboration (JP)
May 04, 2023
Reece Jones, "White Borders: The History of Race and Immigration in the United States from Chinese Exclusion to the Border Wall" (Beacon Press, 2021)
May 04, 2023
Co-Illusion: Dispatches from the End of Communication
May 03, 2023
Defending Academic Freedom: A Conversation with Keith Whittington
May 02, 2023
Brian Domitrovic, "The Emergence of Arthur Laffer: The Foundations of Supply-Side Economics in Chicago and Washington, 1966–1976" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
May 01, 2023
Andrew Walker, "Social Conservatism for the Common Good: A Protestant Engagement with Robert P. George" (Crossway, 2023)
Apr 28, 2023
All Men Are Created Equal: A Conversation with Allen C. Guelzo
Apr 27, 2023
Paul A. Lombardo, "Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck v. Bell" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)
Apr 24, 2023
The Future of the Republican Party: A Conversation with Congressman Mike Gallagher '06
Apr 23, 2023
Boomers: A Conversation with Helen Andrews
Apr 22, 2023
Unalienable Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy: A Conversation with Secretary Pompeo and Ambassador Glendon
Apr 20, 2023
George Washington and American Honor: A Conversation with Craig Bruce Smith
Apr 19, 2023
Elizabeth S. Hurd and Winnifred F. Sullivan, "At Home and Abroad: The Politics of American Religion" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Apr 19, 2023
Benjamin E. Park, "American Nationalisms: Imagining Union in the Age of Revolutions, 1783-1833" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Apr 18, 2023
Happy Birthday, Mr. Lincoln: A Conversation with John Cribb
Apr 18, 2023
Ryan M. Brooks, "Liberalism and American Literature in the Clinton Era" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Apr 17, 2023
Kaitlin Sidorsky and Wendy J. Schiller, "Inequality across State Lines: How Policymakers Have Failed Domestic Violence Victims in the United States" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Apr 16, 2023
Tomiko Brown-Nagin, "Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality" (Pantheon Books, 2022)
Apr 15, 2023
Gregory J. Kaliss, "Beyond the Black Power Salute: Athlete Activism in an Era of Change" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
Apr 14, 2023
Abortion and the Law
Apr 12, 2023
Lincoln at Gettysburg: A Conversation with Allen C. Guelzo
Apr 12, 2023
The Recovery of Family Life: A Conversation with Scott Yenor
Apr 11, 2023
Live Not by Lies: A Conversation with Rod Dreher
Apr 10, 2023
Howard Gillette, Jr., "The Paradox of Urban Revitalization: Progress and Poverty in America's Postindustrial Era" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
Apr 09, 2023
America at the Point of No Return? A Conversation with Michael Anton
Apr 08, 2023
Judge Amy Coney Barrett on "The Constitution as Our Story"
Apr 07, 2023
Alan Blinder, "A Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States, 1961-2021" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Apr 06, 2023
God, The Founders, and Natural Law: A Conversation with Phil Muñoz
Apr 05, 2023
Abortion and the Pro-Life Movement: A Conversation with Alexandra DeSanctis
Apr 05, 2023
Lincoln and the American Founding: A Conversation with Lucas Morel
Apr 05, 2023
Carolyn Woods Eisenberg, "Fire and Rain: Nixon, Kissinger, and the Wars in Southeast Asia" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Apr 05, 2023
Jason Gilmore and Charles Rowling, "Exceptional Me: How Donald Trump Exploited the Discourse of American Exceptionalism" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Apr 03, 2023
Land of Hope: A Conversation with Bill McClay
Mar 31, 2023
Administrative State 101: A Conversation with Adam J. White
Mar 30, 2023
Eric Alterman, "We Are Not One: A History of America's Fight Over Israel" (Basic Book, 2022)
Mar 30, 2023
Susan Burgess, "LGBT Inclusion in American Life: Pop Culture, Political Imagination, and Civil Rights" (NYU Press, 2023)
Mar 30, 2023
The Future of Political Time and Space: A Discussion with Jan Zielonka
Mar 28, 2023
Leslie M. Alexander, "Fear of a Black Republic: Haiti and the Birth of Black Internationalism in the United States" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
Mar 27, 2023
Robin M. Morris, "Goldwater Girls to Reagan Women: Gender, Georgia, and the Growth of the New Right" (U Georgia Press, 2022)
Mar 23, 2023
Leigh Goodmark, "Imperfect Victims: Criminalized Survivors and the Promise of Abolition Feminism" (U California Press, 2023)
Mar 22, 2023
Nadia Abu El-Haj, "Combat Trauma: Imaginaries of War and Citizenship in Post-9/11 America" (Verso, 2022)
Mar 21, 2023
Michael Walzer, "The Struggle for a Decent Politics: On 'Liberal' As an Adjective" (Yale UP, 2023)
Mar 18, 2023
Bradford Vivian, "Campus Misinformation: The Real Threat to Free Speech in American Higher Education" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Mar 15, 2023
Nicholas Carnes and Lilly J. Goren, "The Politics of the Marvel Cinematic Universe" (UP of Kansas, 2022)
Mar 13, 2023
Robin L. Owens, "'My Faith in the Constitution Is Whole': Barbara Jordan and the Politics of Scriptures" (Georgetown UP, 2022)
Mar 11, 2023
Jefferson Cowie, "Freedom's Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power" (Basic Book, 2022)
Mar 10, 2023
Elizabeth Cobbs, "Fearless Women: Feminist Patriots from Abigail Adams to Beyoncé" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Mar 07, 2023
Raina Lipsitz, "The Rise of a New Left: How Young Radicals Are Shaping the Future of American Politics" (Verso, 2022)
Mar 05, 2023
Lerone A. Martin, "The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover: How the FBI Aided and Abetted the Rise of White Christian Nationalism" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Mar 01, 2023
Richard McGahey, "Unequal Cities: Overcoming Anti-Urban Bias to Reduce Inequality in the United States" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Mar 01, 2023
What a City Is for: Remaking the Politics of Displacement
Feb 28, 2023
Melvyn P. Leffler, "Confronting Saddam Hussein: George W. Bush and the Invasion of Iraq" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Feb 28, 2023
Leslie M. Alexander, "Fear of a Black Republic: Haiti and the Birth of Black Internationalism in the United States" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
Feb 27, 2023
Claire Bond Potter, "Political Junkies: From Talk Radio to Twitter, How Alternative Media Hooked Us on Politics and Broke Our Democracy" (Basic Books, 2020)
Feb 25, 2023
Jeffrey J. Matthews, "Colin Powell: Imperfect Patriot" (U Notre Dame Press, 2019)
Feb 24, 2023
Tara Zahra, "Against the World: Anti-Globalism and Mass Politics Between the World Wars" (Norton, 2023)
Feb 22, 2023
Michel Jacques Gagné, "Thinking Critically about the Kennedy Assassination: Debunking the Myths and Conspiracy Theories" (Routledge, 2022)
Feb 21, 2023
Zachary M. Schrag, "The Fires of Philadelphia: Citizen-Soldiers, Nativists, and the 1844 Riots Over the Soul of a Nation" (Pegasus, 2021)
Feb 20, 2023
Lisa Hajjar, "The War in Court: Inside the Long Fight Against Torture" (U California Press, 2022)
Feb 18, 2023
Stephen F. Knott, "Coming to Terms with John F. Kennedy" (UP of Kansas, 2022)
Feb 16, 2023
The Future of the Liberal Order: A Discussion with James E. Cronin
Feb 16, 2023
The Politics of Bicycling
Feb 16, 2023
Matthew S. Henry, "Hydronarratives: Water, Environmental Justice, and a Just Transition" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
Feb 15, 2023
Winston James, "Claude McKay: The Making of a Black Bolshevik" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Feb 11, 2023
Kate Masur, "Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction" (Norton, 2021)
Feb 10, 2023
The Geopolitics of Microchips: China, the EU, and the US
Feb 10, 2023
M. V. Hood and Seth C. McKee, "Rural Republican Realignment in the Modern South: The Untold Story" (U South Carolina Press, 2022)
Feb 08, 2023
Bruce Kuklick, "Fascism Comes to America: A Century of Obsession in Politics and Culture" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Feb 08, 2023
Where is the Left? The Rise and Decline of Social Democratic Movements
Feb 06, 2023
Gabriel Glickman, "US-Egypt Diplomacy Under Johnson: Nasser, Komer, and the Limits of Personal Diplomacy" (Bloombury, 2021)
Feb 05, 2023
Reclaiming a Lost Vision of Feminism: A Conversation with Erika Bachiochi
Feb 04, 2023
Where Did Conservatism Go? A Conversation with Yoram Hazony
Feb 03, 2023
H. Jefferson Powell, "The Practice of American Constitutional Law" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Feb 03, 2023
Truth, Fiction, and Student Loan Forgiveness: A Conversation with Beth Akers
Feb 02, 2023
Derrick Darby, "A Realistic Blacktopia: Why We Must Unite to Fight" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Feb 01, 2023
Zachary Shore, "This Is Not Who We Are: America’s Struggle Between Vengeance and Virtue" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Jan 29, 2023
Above the Veil: Beyond Segregationism and Assimilationism
Jan 29, 2023
Dissecting Morality: What do Scientists Have To Say About Ethics? (Part 1)
Jan 27, 2023
Shaun M. Anderson, "The Black Athlete Revolt: The Sport Justice Movement in the Age Of #BlackLivesMatter" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)
Jan 27, 2023
Kevin Munger, "Generation Gap: Why the Baby Boomers Still Dominate American Politics and Culture" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Jan 25, 2023
How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities
Jan 23, 2023
Progressive Souls: Religion and the Pursuit of a Just Society (Part 2)
Jan 22, 2023
Karyne E. Messina, "Resurgence of Global Populism: A Psychoanalytic Study of Projective Identification, Blame-Shifting and the Corruption of Democracy" (Routledge, 2022)
Jan 21, 2023
Daniel F. Runde, "The American Imperative: Reclaiming Global Leadership through Soft Power" (Bombardier, 2023)
Jan 20, 2023
Richard Aquila, "Rock & Roll in Kennedy's America: A Cultural History of the Early 1960s" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)
Jan 18, 2023
Robert Ovetz, "We the Elites: Why the US Constitution Serves the Few" (Pluto Press, 2022)
Jan 18, 2023
Michael Joseph Roberto, "The Coming of the American Behemoth: The Origins of Fascism in the United States, 1920-1940" (Monthly Review Press, 2018)
Jan 17, 2023
Apocalyptic Politics: What Do Evangelical Voters Want?
Jan 15, 2023
The Politics of Digital Technology
Jan 14, 2023
Aaron Berman, "America's Arab Nationalists: From the Ottoman Revolution to the Rise of Hitler" (Routledge, 2022)
Jan 13, 2023
Challenges to Scientific Authority in Modern America
Jan 12, 2023
Vincent Phillip Muñoz, "Religious Liberty and the American Founding: Natural Rights and the Original Meanings of the First Amendment Religion Clauses" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Jan 11, 2023
Enlightened Cynicism: Should We Be More Cynical Than We Are?
Jan 11, 2023
Demeritocracy: Should We Still Believe in Meritocracy?
Jan 10, 2023
Lior Lehrs, "Unofficial Peace Diplomacy: Private Peace Entrepreneurs in Conflict Resolution Processes" (Manchester UP, 2022)
Jan 08, 2023
21st Century Citizenship: What Does It Mean to be a Citizen in America?
Jan 08, 2023
Neoliberalism and Higher Education
Jan 08, 2023
White Balance: How Do Race and Class Intersect?
Jan 06, 2023
Seriously Funny: Politics and Comedy
Jan 03, 2023
Adam M. Silver, "Partisanship and Polarization: American Party Platforms, 1840-1896" (Lexington Books, 2022)
Dec 30, 2022
Tommie Shelby, "The Idea of Prison Abolition" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Dec 30, 2022
Abdul Alkalimat, "The Future of Black Studies" (Pluto Press, 2022)
Dec 29, 2022
Jefferson Cowie, "Freedom's Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power" (Basic Books, 2022)
Dec 28, 2022
Mary M. Burke, "Race, Politics, and Irish America: A Gothic History" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Dec 26, 2022
The Emergence of Trotskyism in the United States: Part 3 of 3
Dec 25, 2022
Kevin R. C. Gutzman, "The Jeffersonians: Presidents Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe, 1801-1825" (St. Martin's Press, 2022)
Dec 25, 2022
The Emergence of Trotskyism in the United States: Part 2 of 3
Dec 24, 2022
Lauren N. Haumesser, "The Democratic Collapse: How Gender Politics Broke a Party and a Nation, 1856-1861" (UNC Press, 2022)
Dec 23, 2022
The Emergence of Trotskyism in the United States: Part 1 of 3
Dec 23, 2022
Michael Ayers Trotti, "The End of Public Execution: Race, Religion, and Punishment in the American South" (UNC Press, 2022)
Dec 23, 2022
Jacob Kramer, "The New Freedom and the Radicals: Woodrow Wilson, Progressive Views of Radicalism, and the Origins of Repressive Tolerance" (Temple UP, 2015)
Dec 21, 2022
Matthew F. Delmont, "Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad" (Viking, 2022)
Dec 18, 2022
Gregory Smithsimon, "Liberty Road: Black Middle-Class Suburbs and the Battle Between Civil Rights and Neoliberalism" (NYU Press, 2022)
Dec 16, 2022
Alison L. Gash and Daniel J. Tichenor, "Democracy's Child: Young People and the Politics of Control, Leverage, and Agency" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Dec 15, 2022
Harold Holzer, "The Presidents vs. the Press: The Endless Battle between the White House and the Media" (Dutton, 2020)
Dec 14, 2022
William Inboden, "The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan, the Cold War, and the World on the Brink" (Dutton, 2022)
Dec 14, 2022
What Went Wrong in the 1970s in the USA?: A Discussion with Bill McKibben
Dec 12, 2022
Barbara Katz Rothman, "The Biomedical Empire: Lessons Learned from the COVID Pandemic" (Stanford UP, 2021)
Dec 11, 2022
Daniel Immerwahr, "The Galactic Vietnam: Technology, Modernization, and Empire in George Lucas’s Star Wars" (2022)
Dec 10, 2022
Jake S. Friedman, "The Disney Revolt: The Great Labor War of Animation's Golden Age" (Chicago Review Press, 2022)
Dec 10, 2022
Robert L. Hetzel, "The Federal Reserve: A New History" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Dec 08, 2022
Timothy Shenk, "Realigners: Partisan Hacks, Political Visionaries, and the Struggle to Rule American Democracy" (FSG, 2022)
Dec 08, 2022
Dan Bouk, "Democracy's Data: The Hidden Stories in the U.S. Census and How to Read Them" (MCD, 2022)
Dec 08, 2022
Ted Conover, "Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America's Edge" (Knopf, 2022)
Dec 07, 2022
Yoram Hazony, "Conservatism: A Rediscovery" (Regnery Publishing,2022)
Dec 05, 2022
Elizabeth Tandy Shermer, "Indentured Students: How Government-Guaranteed Loans Left Generations Drowning in College Debt" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Dec 04, 2022
Char Miller, "West Side Rising: How San Antonio's 1921 Flood Devastated a City and Sparked a Latino Environmental Justice Movement" (Maverick Books, 2022)
Dec 02, 2022
Alexander Kirshner, "Legitimate Opposition" (Yale UP, 2022)
Dec 01, 2022
Agathe Demarais, "Backfire: How Sanctions Reshape the World Against U.S. Interests" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Nov 29, 2022
William Marling, "Christian Anarchist: Ammon Hennacy, A Life on the Catholic Left" (NYU Press, 2022)
Nov 29, 2022
Shana Kushner Gadarian et al., "Pandemic Politics: The Deadly Toll of Partisanship in the Age of COVID" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Nov 28, 2022
Jennifer Mittelstadt and Mark R. Wilson, "The Military and the Market" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
Nov 25, 2022
The Future of Multiculturalism: A Discussion with Patti Tamara Lenard and Peter Balint
Nov 25, 2022
Tara T. Green, "Love, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Nov 25, 2022
Catherine N. Wineinger, "Gendering the GOP: Intraparty Politics and Republican Women's Representation in Congress" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Nov 24, 2022
Jeanne Theoharis, "The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks" (Beacon Press, 2015)
Nov 23, 2022
Eric MacGilvray, "Liberal Freedom: Pluralism, Polarization, and Politics" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Nov 23, 2022
Amy Gajda, "Seek and Hide: The Tangled History of the Right to Privacy" (Viking, 2022)
Nov 22, 2022
Lyndsie Bourgon, "Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's Woods" (Little, Brown Spark, 2022)
Nov 22, 2022
Michael Genovese, "The Modern Presidency: Six Debates That Define the Institution" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Nov 22, 2022
What is the Future of Populism?
Nov 21, 2022
Robert P. Crease with Peter D. Bond, "The Leak: Politics, Activists, and Loss of Trust at Brookhaven National Laboratory" (MIT Press, 2022)
Nov 18, 2022
Ethnonationalism since 1973: A Discussion with Quinn Slobodian
Nov 17, 2022
Jeffrey Bellin, "Mass Incarceration Nation: How the United States Became Addicted to Prisons and Jails and How it Can Recover" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Nov 15, 2022
Sara Rich, "Shipwreck Hauntography: Underwater Ruins and the Uncanny" (Amsterdam UP, 2021)
Nov 14, 2022
Bruce W. Dearstyne, "The Crucible of Public Policy: New York Courts in the Progressive Era" (SUNY Press, 2022)
Nov 11, 2022
Rachael Hanel, "Not the Camilla We Knew: One Woman's Life from Small-Town America to the Symbionese Liberation Army" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
Nov 11, 2022
Bradley Onishi, "Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism--And What Comes Next" (Broadleaf Books, 2023)
Nov 10, 2022
Dan Bouk, "Democracy's Data: The Hidden Stories in the U.S. Census and How to Read Them" (MCD, 2022)
Nov 08, 2022
Christopher Howard, "Who Cares: The Social Safety Net in America" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Nov 08, 2022
On "The U.S. Constitution"
Nov 07, 2022
Andrew S. Rosenberg, "Undesirable Immigrants: Why Racism Persists in International Migration" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Nov 07, 2022
Mikkael A. Sekeres, "Drugs and the FDA: Safety, Efficacy, and the Public's Trust" (MIT Press, 2022)
Nov 04, 2022
92 Janet McIntosh on "Let's Go Brandon," QAnon and Alt-Right Language (EF, JP)
Nov 03, 2022
Timothy W. Burns, "Leo Strauss on Democracy, Technology, and Liberal Education" (SUNY Press, 2021)
Nov 03, 2022
Jeremi Suri, "Civil War by Other Means: America's Long and Unfinished Fight for Democracy" (PublicAffairs, 2022)
Nov 02, 2022
Bruce G. Carruthers, "The Economy of Promises: Trust, Power, and Credit in America" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Nov 02, 2022
Ross Cole, "The Folk: Music, Modernity, and the Political Imagination" (U California Press, 2021)
Oct 28, 2022
Regina L. Wagner, "Electoral Patterns in Alabama: Local Change and Continuity Amid National Trends" (Palgrave MacmIllan, 2022)
Oct 28, 2022
Shall We Play A Game?
Oct 26, 2022
Lynn M. Hudson, "West of Jim Crow: The Fight Against California's Color Line" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
Oct 26, 2022
Larry Ceplair, "The Hollywood Motion Picture Blacklist: Seventy-Five Years Later" (UP of Kentucky, 2022)
Oct 26, 2022
Kenyon Gradert, "Puritan Spirits in the Abolitionist Imagination" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
Oct 25, 2022
Sara Wallace Goodman, "Citizenship in Hard Times: How Ordinary People Respond to Democratic Threat" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Oct 24, 2022
Ahmed White, "Under the Iron Heel: The Wobblies and the Capitalist War on Radical Workers" (U California Press, 2022)
Oct 24, 2022
Scott Bukatman, "Black Panther" (U Texas Press, 2022)
Oct 21, 2022
Gwen Shuni D'Arcangelis, "Bio-Imperialism: Disease, Terror, and the Construction of National Fragility" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
Oct 21, 2022
Wolverines!
Oct 19, 2022
John Suval, "Dangerous Ground: Squatters, Statesmen, and the Antebellum Rupture of American Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Oct 19, 2022
The Future of Cold War: A Discussion with Sergey Radchenko
Oct 18, 2022
Arthur Bradley, "Unbearable Life: A Genealogy of Political Erasure" (Columbia UP, 2019)
Oct 18, 2022
John F. Lyons, "Joy and Fear: The Beatles, Chicago and the 1960s" (Permuted Press, 2020)
Oct 18, 2022
Robert P. Crease, "The Leak: Politics, Activists, and Loss of Trust at Brookhaven National Laboratory" (MIT Press, 2022)
Oct 18, 2022
David Weinfeld, "An American Friendship: Horace Kallen, Alain Locke, and the Development of Cultural Pluralism" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Oct 18, 2022
Patricia A. Turner, "Trash Talk: Anti-Obama Lore and Race in the Twenty-First Century" (U California Press, 2022)
Oct 18, 2022
What is the Role of Minorities in the Modern State?
Oct 17, 2022
Radicalism, Humility, and Racism in America
Oct 17, 2022
Maria Adele Carrai and Jennifer Rudolph, "The China Questions 2: Critical Insights Into US-China Relations" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Oct 14, 2022
Sherry Boschert, "37 Words: Title IX and Fifty Years of Fighting Sex Discrimination" (New Press, 2022)
Oct 14, 2022
Bhaskar Sunkara, "The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality" (Basic Books, 2020)
Oct 13, 2022
Ramzi Fawaz, "Queer Forms" (NYU Press, 2022)
Oct 13, 2022
Jill Hicks-Keeton and Cavan W. Concannon, "Does Scripture Speak for Itself?: The Museum of the Bible and the Politics of Interpretation" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Oct 13, 2022
Sami Schalk, "Black Disability Politics" (Duke UP, 2022)
Oct 12, 2022
Gabriel Debenedetti, "The Long Alliance: The Imperfect Union of Joe Biden and Barack Obama" (Henry Holt, 2022)
Oct 12, 2022
Suzana Sawyer, "The Small Matter of Suing Chevron" (Duke UP, 2022)
Oct 12, 2022
Mitch Troutman, "Bootleg Coal Rebellion: The Pennsylvania Miners Who Seized an Industry, 1925-1942" (PM Press, 2022)
Oct 11, 2022
M. Margaret McKeown, "Citizen Justice: The Environmental Legacy of William O. Douglas" (Potomac Books, 2022)
Oct 10, 2022
Peter Montoya, "The Second Civil War: A Citizen's Guide to Healing Our Fractured Nation" (RH Press, 2021)
Oct 10, 2022
Andrew Porwancher et al., "The Prophet of Harvard Law: James Bradley Thayer and His Legal Legacy" (UP of Kansas, 2022)
Oct 10, 2022
How to Avoid More Damage from the Russian War on Ukraine
Oct 06, 2022
Judy Tzu-Chun Wu and Gwendolyn Mink, "Fierce and Fearless: Patsy Takemoto Mink, First Woman of Color in Congress" (NYU Press, 2022)
Oct 05, 2022
The Future of the Legitimate Opposition: A Discussion with Alexander S. Kirshner
Oct 04, 2022
Erin A. Snider, "Marketing Democracy: The Political Economy of Democracy Aid in the Middle East" (Cambridge UP. 2022)
Oct 03, 2022
On Thomas Paine's "Common Sense"
Oct 03, 2022
Noah Shusterman, "Armed Citizens: The Road from Ancient Rome to the Second Amendment" (U Virginia Press, 2020)
Sep 30, 2022
Kermit Roosevelt III, "The Nation That Never Was: Reconstructing America's Story" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Sep 29, 2022
Charisse Burden-Stelly and Jodi Dean, "Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women's Political Writing" (Verso, 2022)
Sep 28, 2022
Christopher Nichols and David Milne, "Ideology in U.S. Foreign Relations: New Histories" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Sep 28, 2022
Cold War Homefront
Sep 28, 2022
Jim Cullen, "1980: America's Pivotal Year" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
Sep 26, 2022
Doug Greene, "Failure of Vision: Michael Harrington and the Limits of Democratic Socialism" (Zero Books, 2022)
Sep 23, 2022
Patrick O. Cohrs, "The New Atlantic Order: The Transformation of International Politics, 1860-1933" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Sep 22, 2022
Michael S. Green, "Lincoln and Native Americans" (Southern Illinois UP, 2021)
Sep 22, 2022
Charles L. Chavis Jr., "The Silent Shore: The Lynching of Matthew Williams and the Politics of Racism in the Free State" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)
Sep 22, 2022
Michael R. Gordon, "Degrade and Destroy: The Inside Story of the War Against the Islamic State, from Barack Obama to Donald Trump" (FSG, 2022)
Sep 21, 2022
It’s The End Of The World As We Know It
Sep 21, 2022
David Enrich, "Servants of the Damned: Giant Law Firms, Donald Trump, and the Corruption of Justice" (Mariner Books, 2022)
Sep 21, 2022
Timothy Paul Bowman, "You Will Never Be One of Us: A Teacher, a Texas Town, and the Rural Roots of Radical Conservatism" (U of Oklahoma Press, 2022)
Sep 20, 2022
Nancy Fraser, "Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet and What We Can Do About It" (Verso, 2022)
Sep 20, 2022
Tod Gitlin on the Recovery of American Ideals
Sep 19, 2022
Brad Snyder, "Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment" (Norton, 2022)
Sep 14, 2022
A MAD, MAD, World
Sep 14, 2022
Ethan Czuy Levine, "Rape by the Numbers: Producing and Contesting Scientific Knowledge about Sexual Violence" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
Sep 13, 2022
The Future of American Decline: A Conversation with Jed Esty
Sep 13, 2022
Pew Research Center: Analyzing the Evangelical Right
Sep 09, 2022
Eric A. Posner, "How Antitrust Failed Workers" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Sep 08, 2022
Who Can You Trust?
Sep 07, 2022
Michael O'Hanlon, "The Art of War in an Age of Peace: U.S. Grand Strategy and Resolute Restraint" (Yale UP, 2021)
Sep 07, 2022
Allyson P. Brantley, "Brewing a Boycott: How a Grassroots Coalition Fought Coors and Remade American Consumer Activism" (UNC Press, 2021)
Sep 06, 2022
Truck Nuts: The Political History of Trucks and Trucking
Sep 05, 2022
Mark Clague, "O Say Can You Hear?: A Cultural Biography of the Star-Spangled Banner" (Norton, 2022)
Sep 02, 2022
Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone, "Social Media, Freedom of Speech, and the Future of Our Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Sep 01, 2022
He May Be a Communist!
Aug 31, 2022
E. James West, "Our Kind of Historian: The Work and Activism of Lerone Bennett Jr." (U Massachusetts Press, 2022)
Aug 30, 2022
Wendy L. Rouse, "Public Faces, Secret Lives: A Queer History of the Women's Suffrage Movement" (NYU Press, 2022)
Aug 29, 2022
Paul Adler, "No Globalization Without Representation: U.S. Activists and World Inequality" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
Aug 26, 2022
Michael Sidney Fosberg, "Nobody Wants to Talk about It: Race, Identity, and the Difficulties in Forging Meaningful Conversations" (Incognito, 2020)
Aug 25, 2022
Jennifer C. Lucas and Christopher J. Galdieri, "Polarization and Political Party Factions in the 2020 Election" (Lexington, 2022)
Aug 25, 2022
Ben Rhodes, "After the Fall: Being American in the World We've Made" (Random House, 2021)
Aug 24, 2022
Philip Nash, "Clare Boothe Luce: American Renaissance Woman" (Routledge, 2022)
Aug 23, 2022
The Future of Q Anon: A Discussion with Sophia Moskalenko
Aug 23, 2022
Postscript: How the Supreme Court Overturned a Century-Old Gun Law…and Changed American Jurisprudence
Aug 22, 2022
Jamil W. Drake, "To Know the Soul of a People: Religion, Race, and the Making of Southern Folk" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Aug 22, 2022
Cynthia E. Orozco, "Pioneer of Mexican-American Civil Rights: Alonso S. Perales" (Arte Publico Press, 2020)
Aug 18, 2022
Rochelle DuFord, "Solidarity in Conflict: A Democratic Theory" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Aug 18, 2022
The Pavilion: When Canadians First Had to Confront the Country’s Genocidal Story
Aug 18, 2022
Canada’s Dumbest Public Intellectual: Darts and Letters’ Most Coveted Award
Aug 17, 2022
Julius B. Fleming Jr., "Black Patience: Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation" (NYU Press, 2022)
Aug 17, 2022
Samuel Evan Milner, "Robbing Peter to Pay Paul: Power, Profits, and Productivity in Modern America" (Yale UP, 2021)
Aug 17, 2022
Plague Robbers--Nothing Spreads Like Greed: The Pandemic Profiteers Who Made the Crisis Worse
Aug 16, 2022
Paris Marx, "Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation" (Verso, 2022)
Aug 16, 2022
Christopher Witko, "Hijacking the Agenda: Economic Power and Political Influence" (Russell Sage Foundation, 2021)
Aug 15, 2022
Don’t Look Left: A Discussion with David Sirota, writer of "Don't Look Up"
Aug 15, 2022
Lindy S. F. Hern, "Single Payer Healthcare Reform: Grassroots Mobilization and the Turn Against Establishment Politics in the Medicare for All Movement" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
Aug 12, 2022
Saladin Ambar, "Stars and Shadows: The Politics of Interracial Friendship from Jefferson to Obama" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Aug 11, 2022
On Walter Lippmann's "Public Opinion"
Aug 10, 2022
Andrew Bacevich and Daniel A. Sjursen, "Paths of Dissent: Soldiers Speak Out Against America's Forever Wars" (Metropolitan Books, 2022)
Aug 10, 2022
Jeffrey S. Sutton, "Who Decides?: States As Laboratories of Constitutional Experimentation" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Aug 10, 2022
The Future of Political Anger: A Conversation with Mark Blyth
Aug 09, 2022
January 6th and the Myth of the Mob: The Pervasive Power of Crowd Theory
Aug 08, 2022
American Chernobyl, Part 2: The Most Poisonous Place in the USA
Aug 05, 2022
Daniel T. Fleming, "Living the Dream: The Contested History of Martin Luther King Jr. Day" (UNC Press, 2022)
Aug 05, 2022
Corey Robin, "The Enigma of Clarence Thomas" (Metropolitan Books, 2019)
Aug 04, 2022
America's Chernobyl, Part 1: Living in a Poison Town
Aug 04, 2022
Lindsay Pérez Huber and Susana M. Muñoz, "Why They Hate Us: How Racist Rhetoric Impacts Education" (Teachers College Press, 2021)
Aug 03, 2022
The Revolution Will Not Be Streamed: The Intellectual Culture of Twitch Streamers
Aug 03, 2022
Matt Stoller, "Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy" (Simon & Schuster, 2020)
Aug 03, 2022
Charlie Jeffries, "Teenage Dreams: Girlhood Sexualities in the U.S. Culture Wars" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
Aug 03, 2022
Megan Threlkeld, "Citizens of the World: U. S. Women and Global Government" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
Aug 02, 2022
Socialise the Series of Tubes: Toward a Democratic Internet
Aug 02, 2022
Daniel Laurison, "Producing Politics: Inside the Exclusive Campaign World Where the Privileged Few Shape Politics for All of Us" (Beacon Press, 2022)
Aug 01, 2022
Hawa Allan, "Insurrection: Rebellion, Civil Rights, and the Paradoxical State of Black Citizenship" (Norton, 2022)
Jul 29, 2022
Paisley Currah, "Sex Is as Sex Does: Governing Transgender Identity" (NYU Press, 2022)
Jul 29, 2022
The Battle of Buxton: Saving a Lighthouse in the Era of Climate Change
Jul 28, 2022
Elisabeth R. Anker, "Ugly Freedom" (Duke UP, 2022)
Jul 28, 2022
Michael S. Roth, "Safe Enough Spaces: A Pragmatist's Approach to Inclusion, Free Speech, and Political Correctness on College Campuses" (Yale UP, 2021)
Jul 27, 2022
Robert W. Tomlinson, "The Influence of Foreign Wars on U.S. Domestic Military Policy: The Case of the Yom Kippur War" (Lexington, 2022)
Jul 27, 2022
Koch Block My Campus: How Big Money Corrupts Academia
Jul 27, 2022
The Bland Corporation: On the RAND Corporation and the Defence-Intellectual Industrial Complex
Jul 25, 2022
Michael Bérubé and Jennifer Ruth, "It's Not Free Speech: Race, Democracy, and the Future of Academic Freedom" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)
Jul 25, 2022
Donald Trump Loves Wrestlemania
Jul 19, 2022
Thulani Davis, "The Emancipation Circuit: Black Activism Forging a Culture of Freedom" (Duke UP, 2022)
Jul 19, 2022
Xine Yao, "Disaffected: The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling in Nineteenth-Century America" (Duke UP, 2021)
Jul 19, 2022
Tara Watson and Kalee Thompson, "The Border Within: The Economics of Immigration in an Age of Fear" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Jul 19, 2022
Pigeon Shit Bookstore: On Street Bookselling, Populism, and Public Intellectuals
Jul 18, 2022
Victoria W. Wolcott, "Living in the Future: Utopianism and the Long Civil Rights Movement" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Jul 18, 2022
Daniel Wirls, "The Senate: From White Supremacy to Governmental Gridlock" (U Virginia Press, 2021)
Jul 14, 2022
Michael Mandelbaum, "The Four Ages of American Foreign Policy: Weak Power, Great Power, Superpower, Hyperpower" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Jul 13, 2022
Kevin Ruane and Matthew Jones, "Anthony Eden, Anglo-American Relations and the 1954 Indochina Crisis" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
Jul 12, 2022
John F. Sears, "Refuge Must Be Given: Eleanor Roosevelt, the Jewish Plight, and the Founding of Israel" (Purdue UP, 2021)
Jul 12, 2022
Jamie Susskind, "The Digital Republic: On Freedom and Democracy in the 21st Century" (Pegasus Books, 2022)
Jul 11, 2022
B. J. Crawford and E. G. Waldman, "Menstruation Matters: Challenging the Law's Silence on Periods" (NYU Press, 2022)
Jul 08, 2022
Andrew R. Polk, "Faith in Freedom: Propaganda, Presidential Politics, and the Making of an American Religion" (Cornell UP, 2021)
Jul 07, 2022
Elisabeth R. Anker, "Ugly Freedoms" (Duke UP, 2022)
Jul 04, 2022
Peter Hughes, "A History of Love and Hate in 21 Statues" (Aurum Press, 2021)
Jul 04, 2022
Nicholas T. Pruitt, "Open Hearts, Closed Doors: Immigration Reform and the Waning of Mainline Protestantism" (NYU Press, 2021)
Jun 30, 2022
Bradford P. Wilson and Carson Holloway, eds., "The Political Writings of Alexander Hamilton" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Jun 28, 2022
Emily Mendenhall, "Unmasked: Covid, Community, and the Case of Okoboji" (Vanderbilt UP, 2022)
Jun 24, 2022
Elizabeth Anker, "Ugly Freedoms" (Duke UP, 2022)
Jun 24, 2022
Dayna Bowen Matthew, "Just Health: Treating Structural Racism to Heal America" (NYU Press, 2022)
Jun 23, 2022
Daniel Soyer, "Left in the Center: The Liberal Party of New York and the Rise and Fall of American Social Democracy (Cornell UP, 2021)
Jun 23, 2022
Bianca C. Williams et al., "Plantation Politics and Campus Rebellions: Power, Diversity, and the Emancipatory Struggle in Higher Education" (SUNY Press, 2021)
Jun 23, 2022
The Future of Public Opinion: A Conversation with Susan Herbst
Jun 21, 2022
Edwin Amenta and Neal Caren, "Rough Draft of History: A Century of US Social Movements in the News" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Jun 21, 2022
Joshua Prager, "The Family Roe: An American Story" (W. W. Norton, 2021)
Jun 20, 2022
Aziz Z. Huq, "The Collapse of Constitutional Remedies" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Jun 17, 2022
Çigdem Çidam, "In the Street: Democratic Action, Theatricality, and Political Friendship" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Jun 16, 2022
Ellen Griffith Spears, "Rethinking the American Environmental Movement Post-1945" (Routledge, 2019)
Jun 15, 2022
Lydia Wilkes et al., "Rhetoric and Guns" (Utah State UP, 2022)
Jun 15, 2022
Steven K. Green, "Separating Church and State: A History" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Jun 14, 2022
Andie Tucher, "Not Exactly Lying: Fake News and Fake Journalism in American History" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Jun 13, 2022
Elizabeth Alexander, "The Trayvon Generation" (Grand Central, 2022)
Jun 13, 2022
Risa Brooks et al., "Reconsidering American Civil-Military Relations: The Military, Society, Politics, and Modern War" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Jun 09, 2022
Bryan D. Palmer, "James P. Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary Left, 1890-1928" (U Illinois Press, 2010)
Jun 08, 2022
Tajja Isen, "Some of My Best Friends: Essays on Lip Service" (Atria/One Signal, 2022)
Jun 07, 2022
Melissa Ford, "A Brick and a Bible: Black Women's Radical Activism in the Midwest During the Great Depression" (Southern Illinois UP, 2022)
Jun 06, 2022
Andy Hines, "Outside Literary Studies: Black Criticism and the University" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Jun 06, 2022
Caleb Elfenbein, "Fear in Our Hearts: What Islamophobia Teaches Us About America" (NYU Press, 2021)
Jun 03, 2022
Sarah Mittlefehldt, "Tangled Roots: The Appalachian Trail and American Environmental Politics" (U Washington Press, 2013)
Jun 02, 2022
Garrett M. Graff, "Watergate: A New History" (Simon and Schuster, 2022)
Jun 02, 2022
Mario Daniels and John Krige, "Knowledge Regulation and National Security in Postwar America" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Jun 01, 2022
Colleen Wessel-McCoy, "Freedom Church of the Poor: Martin Luther King Jr's Poor People's Campaign" (Fortress Academic, 2021)
Jun 01, 2022
David Swift, "The Identity Myth: Why We Need to Embrace Our Differences to Beat Inequality" (Constable & Robinson, 2022)
May 31, 2022
Andrew Hunt, "We Begin Bombing in Five Minutes: Late Cold War Culture in the Age of Reagan" (U Massachusetts Press, 2022)
May 27, 2022
Chiara Bonacchi, "Heritage and Nationalism: Understanding Populism through Big Data" (UCL Press, 2022)
May 27, 2022
Christopher J. Gilbert, "Caricature and National Character: The United States at War" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2021)
May 26, 2022
Howard Mortman, "When Rabbis Bless Congress: The Great American Story of Jewish Prayers on Capitol Hill" (Cherry Orchard, 2020)
May 25, 2022
Pandemic Perspectives 12: Politicizing the COVID Pandemic
May 25, 2022
The Future of Neoliberalism: A Conversation with Gary Gerstle
May 24, 2022
Farah Nayeri, "Takedown: Art and Power in the Digital Age" (Astra Publishing, 2022)
May 24, 2022
Ellen Schrecker, "The Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
May 23, 2022
Kennan Ferguson, ed., "The Big No" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
May 19, 2022
Todd McGowan, "Universality and Identity Politics" (Columbia UP, 2020)
May 19, 2022
Alicia Puglionesi, "In Whose Ruins: Power, Possession, and the Landscapes of American Empire" (Scribner, 2022)
May 18, 2022
Donald A. Barclay, "Disinformation: The Nature of Facts and Lies in the Post-Truth Era" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2022)
May 17, 2022
Kai Bosworth, "Pipeline Populism: Grassroots Environmentalism in the Twenty-First Century" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
May 16, 2022
Maha Hilal, "Innocent Until Proven Muslim: Islamophobia, the War on Terror, and the Muslim Experience Since 9/11" (Broadleaf Books, 2022)
May 13, 2022
Postscript: Post-Roe Politics
May 12, 2022
Mark V. Tushnet, "The Hughes Court: From Progressivism to Pluralism, 1930 to 1941" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
May 11, 2022
Eve Ng, "Cancel Culture: A Critical Analysis" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
May 11, 2022
Paul M. Heideman, "Class Struggle and the Color Line: American Socialism and the Race Question 1900-1930" (Haymarket Books, 2022)
May 11, 2022
The Future of Opinion Polls: A Conversation with Mark Pack
May 10, 2022
Mónica Guzmán, "I Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times" (BenBella Books, 2022)
May 09, 2022
LaGina Gause, "The Advantage of Disadvantage: Costly Protest and Political Representation for Marginalized Groups" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
May 06, 2022
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, "Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (and Everything Else)" (Haymarket, 2022)
May 05, 2022
Aaron Cohen, "Move On Up: Chicago Soul Music and Black Cultural Power" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
May 04, 2022
Robert E. Gutsche Jr., "The Future of the Presidency, Journalism, and Democracy: After Trump" (Routledge, 2022)
May 03, 2022
Julian E. Zelizer, "The Presidency of Donald J. Trump: A First Historical Assessment" (Princeton UP, 2022)
May 03, 2022
The Future of Statues: A Conversation with Alex Von Tunzelmann
May 03, 2022
Christian Dyogi Phillips, "Nowhere to Run: Race, Gender, and Immigration in American Elections" (Oxford UP, 2021)
May 02, 2022
The Future of Race: A Discussion with John McWhorter
Apr 26, 2022
Charles Alistair McCrary, "Sincerely Held: American Secularism and Its Believers" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Apr 25, 2022
Sidney G. Tarrow, "Movements and Parties: Critical Connections in American Political Development" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Apr 25, 2022
Stacy G. Ulbig, "Angry Politics: Partisan Hatred and Political Polarization Among College Students" (UP of Kansas, 2020)
Apr 21, 2022
John S. Huntington, "Far-Right Vanguard: The Radical Roots of Modern Conservatism" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
Apr 19, 2022
The Future of the Far Right in the U.S.: A Discussion with Timothy Snyder
Apr 19, 2022
Richard Brent Turner, "Soundtrack to a Movement: African American Islam, Jazz, and Black Internationalism" (NYU Press, 2021)
Apr 08, 2022
R. Douglas Arnold, "Fixing Social Security: The Politics of Reform in a Polarized Age" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Apr 08, 2022
Michael Kazin, "What It Took to Win: A History of the Democratic Party" (FSG, 2022)
Apr 04, 2022
Joseph Fishkin and William E. Forbath, "The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution: Reconstructing the Economic Foundations of American Democracy" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Mar 31, 2022
Steven J. Brady, "Chained to History: Slavery and US Foreign Relations to 1865" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Mar 29, 2022
Andrew Rudalevige, "By Executive Order: Bureaucratic Management and the Limits of Presidential Power" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Mar 17, 2022
Gene Zubovich, "Before the Religious Right: Liberal Protestants, Human Rights, and the Polarization of the United States" (UPenn Press, 2022)
Mar 16, 2022
Daniel R. Bare, "Black Fundamentalists: Conservative Christianity and Racial Identity in the Segregation Era" (NYU Press, 2021)
Mar 11, 2022
Melvin I. Urofsky, "Dissent and the Supreme Court: Its Role in the Court's History and the Nation's Constitutional Dialogue" (Vintage, 2017)
Mar 11, 2022
Randy E. Barnett and Evan D. Bernick, "The Original Meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment: Its Letter and Spirit" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Mar 07, 2022
The Future of the Apocalyptic Right in the U.S.: A Discussion with Benjamin R. Teitelbaum
Feb 22, 2022
Gregg Cantrell, "The People's Revolt: Texas Populists and the Roots of American Liberalism" (Yale UP, 2020)
Feb 17, 2022
Sara Matthiesen, "Reproduction Reconceived: Family Making and the Limits of Choice After Roe V. Wade" (UC Press, 2021)
Feb 16, 2022
Max Krochmal and Todd Moye, "Civil Rights in Black and Brown: Histories of Resistance and Struggle in Texas" (U Texas Press, 2021)
Feb 14, 2022
Kevin Coe and Joshua M. Scacco, "The Ubiquitous Presidency: Presidential Communication and Digital Democracy in Tumultuous Times" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Feb 10, 2022
Barbara Trish and William J. Menner, "Inside the Bubble: Campaigns, Caucuses, and the Future of the Presidential Nomination Process" (Routledge, 2021)
Feb 01, 2022
Stephanie A. Martin, "Decoding the Digital Church: Evangelical Storytelling and the Election of Donald J. Trump" (U Alabama Press, 2021)
Jan 27, 2022
Linda Greenhouse, "Justice on the Brink: The Death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Rise of Amy Coney Barrett, and Twelve Months That Transformed the Supreme Court" (Random House, 2021)
Jan 26, 2022
Postscript: Abortion Extremism and Criminalization: Whatever Happened to Exceptions for Rape and Incest?
Dec 17, 2021
Shamira Gelbman, "The Civil Rights Lobby: The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and the Second Reconstruction" (Temple UP, 2021)
Dec 16, 2021
Adam Hilton, "True Blues: The Contentious Transformation of the Democratic Party" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
Dec 15, 2021
Carol Nackenoff and Julie Novkov, "American by Birth: Wong Kim Ark and the Battle for Citizenship" (UP of Kansas, 2021)
Dec 13, 2021
Rebecca L. Davis, "Public Confessions: The Religious Conversions That Changed American Politics" (UNC Press, 2021)
Dec 10, 2021
Postscript: SB-8, Dobbs, and the Politics of Abortion
Dec 10, 2021
Rasmus Sinding Søndergaard, "Reagan, Congress, and Human Rights: Contesting Morality in US Foreign Policy" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Dec 08, 2021
Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz, "Figures of the Future: Latino Civil Rights and the Politics of Demographic Change" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Dec 06, 2021
Donald Cohen and Allen Mikaelian, "The Privatization of Everything: How the Plunder of Public Goods Transformed America and How We Can Fight Back" (New Press, 2021)
Dec 06, 2021
Amy Fried and Douglas B. Harris, "At War with Government: How Conservatives Weaponized Distrust from Goldwater to Trump" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Dec 02, 2021
Stephen Skowronek et al, "Phantoms of a Beleaguered Republic: The Deep State and the Unitary Executive" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Dec 01, 2021
Steven P. Brown, "Alabama Justice: The Cases and Faces That Changed a Nation" (U Alabama Press, 2020)
Nov 23, 2021
Postscript: The Supreme Court, Concealed Carry, and How Your Laws Might Change
Nov 22, 2021
Dennis C. Rasmussen, "Fears of a Setting Sun: The Disillusionment of America's Founders" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Nov 18, 2021
Efrén O. Pérez, "Diversity's Child: People of Color and the Politics of Identity" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Nov 11, 2021
Matthew J. Lacombe, "Firepower: How the NRA Turned Gun Owners Into a Political Force" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Nov 03, 2021
Robert J. Spitzer, "The Politics of Gun Control" (Routledge, 2020)
Nov 01, 2021
John A. Dearborn, "Power Shifts: Congress and Presidential Representation" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Oct 28, 2021
Rebecca DeWolf, "Gendered Citizenship: The Original Conflict Over the Equal Rights Amendment, 1920-1963" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
Oct 25, 2021
John Roy Price, "The Last Liberal Republican: An Insider's Perspective on Nixon's Surprising Social Policy" (UP of Kansas, 2021)
Oct 22, 2021
Ronald J. Pestritto, "America Transformed: The Rise and Legacy of American Progressivism" (Encounter Books, 2021)
Oct 20, 2021
P. Gabrielle Foreman and Jim Casey, "The Colored Conventions Movement: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century" (UNC Press, 2021)
Oct 18, 2021
Rachel M. Blum, "How the Tea Party Captured the GOP: Insurgent Factions in American Politics" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
Oct 14, 2021
David Eugene Price, "The Congressional Experience: An Institution Transformed" (Routledge, 2020)
Oct 07, 2021
James M. Curry and Frances E. Lee, "The Limits of Party: Congress and Lawmaking in a Polarized Era" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
Oct 06, 2021
Robinson Woodward-Burns, "Hidden Laws: How State Constitutions Stabilize American Politics" (Yale UP, 2021)
Sep 21, 2021
J. P. M. Drury and S. A. M. Drury, "Rhetoric, Politics, and Hamilton: an American Musical" (Peter Lang, 2021)
Sep 16, 2021
Richard W. Maass, "The Picky Eagle: How Democracy and Xenophobia Limited U. S. Territorial Expansion" (Cornell UP, 2020)
Sep 14, 2021
Postscript: The Changing Landscape of Abortion Politics
Sep 13, 2021
Jeanne Sheehan, "American Democracy in Crisis: The Case for Rethinking Madisonian Government" (Palgrave Macmillian, 2021)
Sep 13, 2021
Gender Ideologies, Conservative Christianity, and Legislation in the U.S.
Sep 08, 2021
Herbert M. Kritzer, "Judicial Selection in the States: Politics and the Struggle for Reform" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Sep 02, 2021
Paul Sabin, "Public Citizens: The Attack on Big Government and the Remaking of American Liberalism" (Norton, 2021)
Aug 31, 2021
Donald A. Barr, "Crossing the American Health Care Chasm: Finding the Path to Bipartisan Collaboration in National Health Care Policy" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
Aug 30, 2021
Ken Starr, "Religious Liberty in Crisis: Exercising Your Faith in an Age of Uncertainty" (Encounter, 2021)
Aug 23, 2021
LaFleur Stephens-Dougan, "Race to the Bottom: How Racial Appeals Work in American Politics" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
Aug 23, 2021
Joseph Stieb, "The Regime Change Consensus: Iraq in American Politics, 1990-2003" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Aug 20, 2021
David E Campbell et al., "Secular Surge: A New Fault Line in American Politics" (Cambridge UP. 2020)
Aug 18, 2021
John Lovett, "The Politics of Herding Cats: When Congressional Leaders Fail" (U Michigan Press, 2021)
Aug 05, 2021
Jeffery A. Jenkins and Justin Peck, "Congress and the First Civil Rights Era, 1861-1918" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Jul 26, 2021
Meena Bose and Andrew Rudalevige, "Executive Policymaking: The Role of the OMB in the Presidency" (Brookings, 2020)
Jul 22, 2021
Nathan Kalmoe, "With Ballots and Bullets: Partisanship and Violence in the American Civil War" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Jul 15, 2021
Van Gosse, "The First Reconstruction: Black Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War" (UNC Press, 2021)
Jun 30, 2021
Michael W. McConnell, "The President Who Would Not Be King: Executive Power under the Constitution" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Jun 24, 2021
Ronald C. White, "Lincoln in Private: What His Most Personal Reflections Tell Us About Our Greatest President" (Random House, 2021)
May 25, 2021
Nadia E. Brown and Danielle Casarez Lemi, "Sister Style: The Politics of Appearance for Black Women Political Elites" (Oxford UP, 2021)
May 24, 2021
Andrew L. Whitehead, "Taking America Back for God: Christian Nationalism in the United States" (Oxford UP, 2020)
May 20, 2021
Cristina Beltrán, "Cruelty As Citizenship: How Migrant Suffering Sustains White Democracy" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
May 13, 2021
C. G. Faricy and C. Ellis, "The Other Side of the Coin: Public Opinion toward Social Tax Expenditures" (Russell Sage Foundation, 2021)
May 04, 2021
Dorothy Cobble, "For the Many: American Feminists and the Global Fight for Democratic Equality" (Princeton UP, 2021)
May 03, 2021
Paul M. Renfro et al., "Growing Up America: Youth and Politics Since 1945" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
Apr 29, 2021
Susan Ware, "American Women's Suffrage: Voices from the Long Struggle for the Vote, 1776-1965" (Library of America, 2020)
Apr 28, 2021
Postscript: Biden's First 100 Days
Apr 19, 2021
Joshua Gunn, "Political Perversion: Rhetorical Aberration in the Time of Trumpeteering" (U of Chicago Press, 2020)
Apr 14, 2021
Karen Petrou, "Engine of Inequality: The Fed and the Future of Wealth in America" (Wiley, 2021)
Apr 13, 2021
Philip N. Howard, "Lie Machines: How to Save Democracy from Troll Armies, Deceitful Robots, Junk News Operations, and Political Operatives" (Yale UP, 2020)
Apr 12, 2021
Bertram Levine and Grande Lum, "America's Peacemakers: The Community Relations Service and Civil Rights" (U Missouri Press, 2020)
Apr 08, 2021
Max Edling, "Perfecting the Union: National and State Authority in the US Constitution" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Mar 16, 2021
Christopher T. Stout, "The Case for Identity Politics: Polarization, Demographic Change, and Racial Appeals" (U Virginia Press, 2020)
Mar 11, 2021
Democracy, Protest, and Progress with Melvin Rogers
Mar 02, 2021
Robert Elder, "Calhoun: American Heretic" (Basic Books, 2021)
Mar 02, 2021
L. Cox Han and C. Heldman, "Madam President?: Gender and Politics on the Road to the White House" (Lynne Rienner, 2020)
Feb 25, 2021
A. Hollis-Brusky and J. C. Wilson. "Separate But Faithful: The Christian Right's Radical Struggle to Transform Law and Legal Culture" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Feb 22, 2021
Postscript: Trump, Trumpism, and the Future of the GOP
Feb 15, 2021
Cathleen D. Cahill, "Recasting the Vote: How Women of Color Transformed the Suffrage Movement" (U North Carolina Press, 2020)
Feb 15, 2021
Richard Kreitner, "Break It Up: Secession, Division, and the Secret History of America's Imperfect Union" (Little Brown, 2020)
Feb 08, 2021
Postscript: The Biden Administration and the Resiliency of the American Presidency
Feb 05, 2021
Frank L. Jones, "Sam Nunn: Statesman of the Nuclear Age" (UP Kansas, 2020)
Feb 03, 2021
Thomas P. Crocker, "Overcoming Necessity: Emergency, Constraint, and the Meanings of American Constitutionalism" (Yale UP, 2020)
Feb 01, 2021
Jeffrey D. Broxmeyer, "Electoral Capitalism: The Party System in New York's Gilded Age" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2020)
Jan 28, 2021
Matthew Rowley, "Trump and the Protestant Reaction to Make America Great Again" (Routledge, 2020)
Jan 21, 2021
Daniel T. Rodgers, "As a City on a Hill: The Story of America's Most Famous Lay Sermon" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Jan 19, 2021
Dov H. Levin, "Meddling in the Ballot Box: The Causes and Effects of Partisan Electoral Interventions" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Jan 19, 2021
Ilya Shapiro, "Supreme Disorder: Judicial Nominations and the Politics of America's Highest Court" (Gateway, 2020)
Jan 06, 2021
Arie Perliger, "American Zealots: Inside Right-Wing Domestic Terrorism" (Columbia UP, 2020)
Jan 06, 2021
K. A. Young and M. Schwartz, "Levers of Power: How the 1% Rules and What the 99% Can Do About It" (Verso, 2020)
Dec 30, 2020
Simon J. Gilhooley, "The Antebellum Origins of the Modern Constitution: Slavery and the Spirit of the American Founding" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Dec 28, 2020
Bob Bauer and Jack Goldsmith, "After Trump: Reconstructing the Presidency" (Lawfair Press, 2020)
Dec 24, 2020
Steven W. Webster, "American Rage: How Anger Shapes Our Politics" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Dec 17, 2020
Martha S. Jones, "Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All" (Basic Books, 2020)
Dec 16, 2020
Ian Ayres and Fredrick E. Vars, "Weapon of Choice: Fighting Gun Violence While Respecting Gun Rights" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Dec 16, 2020
Daniel S. Lucks, "Reconsidering Reagan: Racism, Republicans, and the Road to Trump" (Beacon Press, 2020)
Dec 16, 2020
Nazita Lajevardi, "Outsiders at Home: The Politics of American Islamophobia" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Dec 14, 2020
Stacie Taranto and Leandra Zarnow, "Suffrage at 100: Women in American Politics since 1920" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)
Dec 10, 2020
Michael Brenes, "For Might and Right: Cold War Defense Spending and the Remaking of American Democracy" (U Massachusetts Press, 2020)
Dec 03, 2020
Charles A. Kupchan, "Isolationism: A History of America's Efforts to Shield Itself from the World" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Dec 01, 2020
Jill Watts, "The Black Cabinet: The Untold Story of African Americans and Politics During the Age of Roosevelt" (Grove Press, 2020)
Nov 30, 2020
S. Mettler and R. C. Lieberman, "Four Threats: The Recurring Crises of American Democracy" (St. Martin's Press, 2020)
Nov 23, 2020
Jon D. Schaff, "Abraham Lincoln’s Statesmanship and the Limits of Liberal Democracy" (SIU Press, 2019)
Nov 19, 2020
Luke A. Nichter, "The Last Brahmin: Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. and the Making of the Cold War" (Yale UP, 2020)
Nov 18, 2020
Kevin O'Leary, "Madison's Sorrow: Today's War on the Founders and America's Liberal Ideal" (Pegasus Books, 2020)
Nov 12, 2020
J. A. Delton, "The Industrialists: How the National Association of Manufacturers Shaped American Capitalism" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Nov 02, 2020
F. H. Buckley, "American Secession: The Looming Threat of a National Break-Up" (Encounter Books, 2020)
Oct 30, 2020
Robert Zoellick, "America in the World: A History of U.S. Diplomacy and Foreign Policy" (Twelve, 2020)
Oct 29, 2020
John Yoo, "Defender in Chief: Donald Trump’s Fight for Presidential Power" (All Points Book, 2020)
Oct 28, 2020
Barry C. Lynn, "Liberty From All Masters: The New American Autocracy vs. the Will of the People” (St. Martin's Press, 2020)
Oct 28, 2020
Richard L. Hasen, "Election Meltdown: Dirty Tricks, Distrust, and the Threat to American Democracy" (Yale UP, 2020)
Oct 21, 2020
Michael Walzer, "A Foreign Policy for the Left" (Yale UP, 2018)
Oct 20, 2020
Janet Jakobsen, "The Sex Obsession: Perversity and Possibility in American Politics" (NYU Press, 2020)
Oct 19, 2020
Spencer Critchley, "Patriots of Two Nations: Why Trump Was Inevitable and What Happens Next" (McDavid Media, 2020)
Oct 19, 2020
Charles L. Zelden, "Bush v. Gore: Exposing the Growing Crisis in American Democracy" (UP of Kansas, 2020)
Oct 16, 2020
Why are Blacks Democrats?: An Interview with Ismail K. White and Chryl N. Laird
Oct 15, 2020
Seth Masket, "Learning from Loss: The Democrats, 2016-2020" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Oct 15, 2020
A. B. Cox and C. M. Rodríguez, "The President and Immigration Law" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Oct 14, 2020
Ian Haney López, "Merge Left: Fusing Race and Class, Winning Elections, and Saving America" (The New Press, 2019)
Oct 14, 2020
Hannah L. Walker, "Mobilized by Injustice: Criminal Justice Contact, Political Participation, and Race" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Oct 08, 2020
David Paul Kuhn, "The Hardhat Riot: Nixon, New York City, and the Dawn of the White Working-Class Revolution" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Sep 21, 2020
Alexander Keyssar, "Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College?" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Sep 17, 2020
Nadine Strossen, “Hate: Why We Should Resist it With Free Speech, Not Censorship” (Oxford UP, 2020)
Sep 16, 2020
Postscript: A Discussion of Race, Anger and Citizenship in the USA
Sep 14, 2020
Meg Heckman, "Political Godmother: Nackey Scripps Loeb and the Newspaper That Shook the Republican Party" (Potomac Books, 2020)
Sep 11, 2020
B. Heersink and J. A. Jenkins, "Republican Party Politics and the American South, 1865-1968" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Sep 10, 2020
Postscript: Shirley Chisholm as Principled Political Strategist
Sep 07, 2020
Nathan J. Kelly, "America's Inequality Trap" (U of Chicago Press, 2020)
Sep 03, 2020
Chris Yogerst, "Hollywood Hates Hitler!: Jew-bating, Anti-Nazism, and the Senate Investigation into Warmongering in Motion Pictures" (U Mississippi, 2020)
Aug 28, 2020
J. E. Zelizer, "Burning Down the House: Newt Gingrich, the Fall of a Speaker, and the Rise of the New Republican Party" (Penguin, 2020)
Aug 27, 2020
Thomas A. Schwartz, "Henry Kissinger and American Power: A Political Biography" (Hill and Wang, 2020)
Aug 26, 2020
Robert G. Boatright and Valerie Sperling, "Trumping Politics as Usual: Masculinity, Misogyny, and the 2016 Elections" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Aug 24, 2020
John R. Hibbing, "The Securitarian Personality: What Really Motivates Trump’s Base and Why It Matters for the Post-Trump Era" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Aug 20, 2020
Benjamin Talton, "In This Land of Plenty: Mickey Leland and Africa in American Politics" (Pennsylvania UP, 2019)
Aug 19, 2020
Lucas E. Morel, "Lincoln and the American Founding" (SIUP, 2020)
Aug 18, 2020
Julia Rose Kraut, "Threat of Dissent: A History of Ideological Exclusion and Deportation in the United States" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Aug 17, 2020
Duane Tananbaum, "Herbert H. Lehman: A Political Biography" (SUNY Press, 2017)
Aug 14, 2020
Andrea Benjamin, "Racial Coalition Building in Local Elections: Elite Cues and Cross-Ethnic Voting" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Aug 13, 2020
W. J. Perry and T. Z. Collina, "The Button: The New Nuclear Arms Race and Presidential Power from Truman to Trump" (BenBella Books, 2020)
Aug 06, 2020
Michael A. Olivas, "Perchance to DREAM: A Legal and Political History of the DREAM Act and DACA" (NYU Press, 2020)
Aug 03, 2020
Lindsay M. Chervinsky, "The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Jul 30, 2020
Amity Shlaes, "Great Society: A New History" (Harper, 2019)
Jul 29, 2020
R. K. Jefferson and H. B. Johnson, "Shortlisted: Women in the Shadows of the Supreme Court (NYU Press, 2020)
Jul 27, 2020
John B. Holbein, "Making Young Voters: Converting Civic Attitudes into Action" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Jul 23, 2020
Leslie Dorrough Smith, "Compromising Positions: Sex Scandals, Politics, and American Christianity" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Jul 17, 2020
Brian F. Harrison, "A Change is Gonna Come: How to Have Effective Political Conversations in a Divided America" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Jul 16, 2020
Melissa K. Merry, "Warped Narratives: Distortion in the Framing of Gun Policy" (U Michigan Press, 2020)
Jul 10, 2020
Nicole Myers Turner, "Soul Liberty: The Evolution of Black Religious Politics in Postemancipation Virginia" (UNC Press, 2020)
Jul 06, 2020
Adam Goodman, "The Deportation Machine: America’s Long History of Expelling Immigrants" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Jun 29, 2020
Zerlina Maxwell, "The End of White Politics: How to Heal Our Liberal Divide" (Hachette, 2020)
Jun 29, 2020
Gerarldo Cadava, "The Hispanic Republican: The Shaping of an American Political Identity, from Nixon to Trump" (Ecco, 2020)
Jun 26, 2020
Michael Goldfield, "The Southern Key: Class, Race, and Radicalism in the 1930s and 1940s" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Jun 24, 2020
Leticia Bode et al., "Words That Matter: How the News and Social Media Shaped the 2016 Presidential Campaign" (Brookings, 2020)
Jun 19, 2020
J. Bernstein and C. B. K. Dominguez, "The Making of the Presidential Candidates 2020" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2019)
Jun 16, 2020
Kathleen Hale and Mitchell Brown, "How We Vote: Innovation in American Elections" (Georgetown UP, 2020)
Jun 12, 2020
Shauna L. Shames et al., "Good Reason to Run: Women and Political Candidacy" (Temple UP, 2020)
Jun 11, 2020
Thomas John Lappas, "In League Against King Alcohol" (U Oklahoma Press, 2020)
Jun 10, 2020
Phil Harvey, "Welfare For The Rich" (Post Hill Press, 2020)
Jun 09, 2020
Daniel Q. Gillion, "The Loud Minority: Why Protests Matter in American Democracy" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Jun 09, 2020
Gilda R. Daniels, "Uncounted: The Crisis of Voter Suppression" (NYU Press, 2020)
Jun 04, 2020
Ilya Somin, "Free to Move: Foot Voting, Migration, and Political Freedom" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Jun 01, 2020
Mary-Kate Lizotte, "Gender Differences in Public Opinion: Values and Political Consequences" (Temple UP, 2020)
Jun 01, 2020
T. Skocpol and C. Tervo, "Upending American Politics: Polarizing Parties, Ideological Elites, and Citizen Activists from the Tea Party to the Anti-Trump Resistance" (Oxford UP, 2019)
May 21, 2020
Yuval Levin, "A Time to Build" (Basic Books, 2020)
May 19, 2020
Brandon K. Winford, "John Hervey Wheeler, Black Banking, and the Economic Struggle for Civil Rights" (UP Kentucky, 2019)
May 19, 2020
Betsy Gaines Quammen, "American Zion: Cliven Bundy, God and Public Lands in the West" (Torrey House, 2020)
May 18, 2020
Jia Lynn Yang, "One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924–1965" (Norton, 2020)
May 14, 2020
Kenesha N. Grant, "The Great Migration and the Democratic Party" (Temple UP, 2020)
May 12, 2020
Randy E. Barnett, "An Introduction to Constitutional Law: 100 Supreme Court Cases Everyone Should Know" (Wolters Kluwer, 2019)
May 12, 2020
Adam H. Domby, "The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory" (U Virginia Press, 2020)
Apr 23, 2020
Charles J. Holden, "Republican Populist: Spiro Agnew and the Origins of Donald Trump’s America" (UVA Press, 2019)
Apr 20, 2020
Cynthia Orozco, "Agent of Change: Adela Sloss-Vento, Mexican American Civil Rights Activist and Texas Feminist" (U Texas Press, 2020)
Apr 16, 2020
Ismail K. White and Chryl N. Laird, "Steadfast Democrats: How Social Forces Shape Black Political Behavior" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Apr 08, 2020
C. Wolbrecht and J. K. Corder, "A Century of Votes for Women: American Elections Since Suffrage" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Mar 31, 2020
Michael Fischbach, "The Movement and the Middle East: How the Arab-Israeli Conflict Divided the American Left" (Stanford UP, 2019)
Mar 30, 2020
Edward E. Curtis IV, "Muslim American Politics and the Future of US Democracy" (NYU Press, 2019)
Mar 26, 2020
Theda Skocpol, "Upending American Politics" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Mar 11, 2020
Sarah Burns, "The Politics of War Powers: The Theory and History of Presidential Unilateralism" (UP of Kansas, 2020)
Mar 09, 2020
Rebecca E. Zietlow, "The Forgotten Emancipator: James Mitchell Ashley and the Ideological Origins of Reconstruction" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Mar 05, 2020
Steve Suitts, "Overturning Brown: The Segregationist Legacy of the Modern School Choice Movement" (NewSouth Books, 2020)
Feb 21, 2020
Eric Lomazoff, "Reconstructing the National Bank Controversy: Politics and Law in the Early American Republic" (U Chicago Press, 2018)
Feb 18, 2020
Lee Drutman, "Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop: The Case for Multiparty Democracy in America" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Feb 17, 2020
Jay Wexler, "Our Non-Christian Nation" (Redwood Press, 2019)
Feb 11, 2020
Co-Authored: Frank Baumgartner and Bryan Jones on American Politics and Policy
Feb 05, 2020
Michael Bobelian, "Battle for the Marble Palace: Abe Fortas, Earl Warren, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon and the Forging of the Modern Supreme Court" (Schaffner, 2019)
Feb 05, 2020
Daniel Denvir, "All-American Nativism: How the Bipartisan War on Immigrants Explains Politics as We Know It" (Verso, 2020)
Jan 27, 2020
James M. Banner, Jr., "Presidential Misconduct: From George Washington to Today" (The New Press, 2019)
Jan 22, 2020
Jane H. Hong, "Gates to Asia: A Transpacific History of How America Repealed Asian Exclusion" (UNC Press, 2019)
Jan 17, 2020
Rachel Louise Moran, "Governing Bodies: American Politics and the Shaping of the Modern Physique" (U Penn Press, 2018)
Jan 14, 2020
Joseph Blocher and Darrell A.H. Miller, "The Positive Second Amendment: Rights, Regulation, and the Future of Heller" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Jan 10, 2020
Lori Cox Han, "Advising Nixon: The White House Memos of Patrick J. Buchanan" (UP of Kansas, 2019)
Jan 09, 2020
David Frum, "Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic" (Harper, 2018)
Jan 06, 2020
Benjamin Francis-Fallon, "The Rise of the Latino Vote: A History" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Dec 31, 2019
Christopher A. Preble, "Fuel to the Fire: How Trump made America’s Foreign Policy Even Worse" (Cato Institute, 2019)
Dec 30, 2019
Matt Grossmann, "Red State Blues: How the Conservative Revolution Stalled in the States" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Dec 27, 2019
Matt Grossmann, "Red State Blues: How the Conservative Revolution Stalled in the States" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Dec 27, 2019
Michael Romano and Todd Curry, "Creating the Law: State Supreme Court Opinions and The Effect of Audiences" (Routledge, 2019)
Nov 19, 2019
Dana Fisher, "American Resistance: From the Women's March to the Blue Wave" (Columbia UP, 2019)
Nov 14, 2019
Robert Mann, "Becoming Ronald Reagan: The Rise of a Conservative Icon" (Potomac Book, 2019)
Nov 12, 2019
William P. Hustwit, "Integration Now: Alexander v. Holmes and the End of Jim Crow Education" (UNC Press, 2019)
Nov 12, 2019
Douglas R. Egerton, "Heirs of an Honored Name: The Decline of the Adams Family and the Rise of Modern America" (Basic Books, 2019)
Nov 12, 2019
William P. Hustwit, "Integration Now: Alexander v. Holmes and the End of Jim Crow Education" (UNC Press, 2019)
Nov 12, 2019
Bert A. Rockman and Andrew Rudalevige, "The Obama Legacy" (UP of Kansas, 2019)
Nov 11, 2019
Zoltan Hajnal, "Dangerously Divided: How Race and Class Shape Winning and Losing in American Politics" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Oct 30, 2019
Samuel Goldman, "God’s Country: Christian Zionism in America" (U Penn Press, 2018)
Oct 28, 2019
Marc Dollinger, "Black Power, Jewish Politics: Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s" (Brandeis UP, 2018)
Oct 25, 2019
Saul Cornell, "The Partisan Republic: Democracy, Exclusion, and the Fall of the Founders’ Constitution, 1780s-1830s" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Oct 23, 2019
Lorena Oropeza, "The King of Adobe: Reies López Tijerina, Lost Prophet of the Chicano Movement" (UNC Press, 2019)
Oct 22, 2019
Steven White, "World War II and American Racial Politics: Public Opinion, the Presidency, and Civil Rights Advocacy" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Oct 18, 2019
Matthew Hitt, "Inconsistency and Indecision in the United States Supreme Court" (U Michigan Press, 2019)
Oct 10, 2019
Andrew Sidman, "Pork Barrel Politics: How Government Spending Determines Elections in a Polarized Era" (Columbia UP, 2019)
Sep 30, 2019
Robert M. Alexander, "Representation and the Electoral College" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Sep 25, 2019
Bryan Jones, "The Great Broadening: How the Vast Expansion of the Policymaking Agenda Transformed American Politics" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
Sep 18, 2019
Patrick Andelic, "Donkey Work: Congressional Democrats in Conservative America, 1974-1994" (UP of Kansas, 2019)
Sep 05, 2019
Anne M. Kornhauser, "Debating the American State: Liberal Anxieties and the New Leviathan, 1930-1970" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2015)
Sep 05, 2019
Niambi Michele Carter, "American While Black: African Americans, Immigration, and the Limits of Citizenship" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Aug 28, 2019
Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof, "Racial Migrations: New York City and the Revolutionary Politics of the Spanish Caribbean" (Princeton UP, 2019)
Aug 27, 2019
Joshua D. Farrington, "Black Republicans and the Transformation of the GOP" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2016)
Aug 19, 2019
Paul Finkelman, "Supreme Injustice: Slavery in the Nation’s Highest Court" (Harvard UP, 2018)
Aug 19, 2019
Kevin M. Baron, "Presidential Privilege and the Freedom of Information Act" (Edinburgh UP, 2019)
Aug 14, 2019
Cyril Ghosh, "De-Moralizing Gay Rights: Some Queer Remarks on LGBT+ Rights Politics in the US" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
Aug 09, 2019
Sam Erman, "Almost Citizens: Puerto Rico, the U.S. Constitution, and Empire" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Jul 25, 2019
Jennifer A. Jones, "The Browning of the New South" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
Jul 24, 2019
Maria Cotera, "Chicana Movidas: New Narratives of Activism and Feminism in the Movement Era" (U of Texas Press, 2018)
Jul 17, 2019
Marc Stein, "Sexual Injustice: Supreme Court Decisions from Griswold to Roe" (UNC Press, 2013)
Jul 12, 2019
Jonathan Gienapp, "The Second Creation: Fixing the American Constitution in the Founding Era" (Harvard UP, 2018)
Jul 10, 2019
Jeffrey Lantis, "Foreign Policy Advocacy and Entrepreneurship: How a New Generation in Congress Is Shaping U.S. Engagement with the World" (U Michigan Press, 2019)
Jul 02, 2019
Anthony J. Badger, "Albert Gore, Sr.: A Political Life" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2019)
Jun 24, 2019
David Karol, "Red, Green, and Blue: The Partisan Divide on Environmental Issues" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Jun 21, 2019
Ryan Grim, "We've Got People: From Jesse Jackson to AOC, the End of Big Money and the Rise of a Movement" (Strong Arm Press, 2019)
Jun 17, 2019
Rachel Augustine Potter, "Bending the Rules: Procedural Politicking in the Bureaucracy" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
Jun 17, 2019
Ben Merriman, "Conservative Innovators: How States Are Challenging Federal Power" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
Jun 14, 2019
Christopher J. Galdieri, "Stranger in a Strange State: The Politics of Carpetbagging from Robert Kennedy to Scott Brown" (SUNY Press, 2019)
May 31, 2019
Christopher Childers, "The Webster-Hayne Debate: Defining Nationhood in the Early American Republic" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2018)
May 31, 2019
Gwendoline M. Alphonso, "Polarized Families, Polarized Parties: Contesting Values and Economics in American Politics" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2018)
May 23, 2019
Matthew Green, "Legislative Hardball: The House Freedom Caucus and the Power of Threat-Making in Congress" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
May 21, 2019
Free Speech 52: Eugene Volokh on What We Mean by "The First Amendment"
May 20, 2019
Free Speech 53: Eric Segall--Should You Trust the Supreme Court?
May 17, 2019
Affirmative Action: Liliana Garces--Let's Create a Level Playing Field
May 17, 2019
J. Dyck and E. Lascher, "Initiatives without Engagement: A Realistic Appraisal of Direct Democracy’s Secondary Effects" (U Michigan Press, 2019)
May 17, 2019
Aram Gousouzian, "The Men and the Moment: The Election of 1968 and the Rise of Partisan Politics in America" (UNC Press, 2019)
May 14, 2019
Peter Daou, "Digital Civil War: Confronting the Far-Right Menace" (Melville House, 2019)
May 06, 2019
Erin M. Kempker, "Big Sister: Feminism, Conservatism and Conspiracy in the Heartland" (U Illinois, 2018)
May 03, 2019
Steve Luxenberg, "Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America’s Journey from Slavery to Segregation" (Norton, 2019)
Mar 22, 2019
S. M. Milkis and D. J. Tichenor, "Rivalry and Reform: Presidents, Social Movements, and the Transformation of American Politics" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
Mar 18, 2019
B. I. Page, J. Seawright, and M. J. Lacombe, "Billionaires and Stealth Politics" U Chicago Press, 2019)
Feb 25, 2019
Margaret Peacock, "Innocent Weapons: The Soviet and American Politics of Childhood in the Cold War" (UNC Press, 2014)
Feb 12, 2019
Jon Ward, "Camelot’s End: Kennedy vs. Carter and the Fight That Broke the Democratic Party" (Twelve, 2019)
Feb 08, 2019
Free Speech 39: Martha Jones on Birthright Citizenship
Jan 17, 2019
Pamela Herd and Donald Moynihan, "Administrative Burden: Policymaking by Other Means" (Russell Sage Foundation Press, 2019)
Jan 09, 2019
Robert Chiles, "The Revolution of ’28: Al Smith, American Progressivism, and the Coming of the New Deal" (Cornell UP, 2018)
Jan 07, 2019
John Sides, Michael Tesler, Lynn Vavreck, "Identity Crisis: The 2016 Presidential Campaign and the Battle for the Meaning of America" (Princeton UP, 2018)
Dec 03, 2018
Sara Egge, “Woman Suffrage and Citizenship in the Midwest, 1870-1920” (U Iowa Press, 2018)
Nov 27, 2018
James M. Turner and Andrew C. Isenberg, “The Republican Reversal: Conservatives and the Environment from Nixon to Trump” (Harvard UP, 2018)
Nov 20, 2018
Mark R. Cheathem, “The Coming of Democracy: Presidential Campaigning in the Age of Jackson” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2018)
Nov 15, 2018
Bernard Fraga, “The Turnout Gap: Race, Ethnicity, and Political Inequality in a Diversifying America” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Nov 12, 2018
Kristina C. Miler, “Poor Representation: Congress and the Politics of Poverty in the United States” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Nov 06, 2018
Paul Djupe and Ryan L. Claassen, eds., “The Evangelical Crackup?: The Future of the Evangelical-Republican Coalition” (Temple UP, 2018)
Nov 06, 2018
Greg Sargent, “An Uncivil War: Taking Back Our Democracy in an Age of Trumpian Disinformation and Thunderdome Politics” (Custom House, 2018)
Oct 25, 2018
Stella M. Rouse and Ashley D. Ross, “The Politics of Millennials: Political Beliefs and Policy Preferences of America’s Most Diverse Generation” (U Michigan Press, 2018)
Oct 22, 2018
David Pietrusza, “TR’s Last War: Theodore Roosevelt, the Great War, and a Journey of Triumph and Tragedy” (Lyons Press, 2018)
Oct 17, 2018
Steve Kornacki, “The Red and The Blue: The 1990s and the Birth of Political Tribalism” (Ecco, 2018)
Oct 16, 2018
Michael Koncewicz, “They Said No to Nixon: Republicans Who Stood Up to the President’s Abuses of Power” (U California Press, 2018)
Oct 11, 2018
Free Speech 22: Erwin Chemerinsky--There Should Not Be Limits on Speech
Oct 08, 2018
Free Speech 21: Ian Haney López--The Free Speech Debates from the 1960s to Today
Oct 08, 2018
Free Speech 9: Kate Shaw on Speech, Our President, and the Supreme Court
Oct 08, 2018
K. Dittmar, K. Sanbonmatsu, and S. Carroll, “A Seat at the Table: Congresswomen’s Perspectives on Why Their Presence Matters” (Oxford UP, 2018)
Oct 08, 2018
Daniel E. Ponder, “Presidential Leverage: Presidents, Approval, and the American State” (Stanford UP, 2018)
Oct 04, 2018
Nicholas Carnes, “The Cash Ceiling: Why Only the Rich Run for Office and What We Can Do About It” (Princeton UP, 2018)
Sep 28, 2018
Spencer Piston, “Class Attitudes in American Politics: Sympathy for the Poor, Resentment of the Rich, and Political Implications” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Sep 12, 2018
B. T. Gervais and I. L. Morris, “Reactionary Republicans: How the Tea Party in the House Paved the Way for Trump’s Victory” (Oxford UP, 2018)
Sep 10, 2018
Millington W. Bergeson-Lockwood, “Race Over Party: Black Politics and Partisanship in Late Nineteenth-Century Boston” (UNC Press, 2018)
Aug 29, 2018
Michele Margolis, “From Politics to the Pews: How Partisanship and the Political Environment Shape Religious Identity” (U Chicago Press, 2018)
Aug 28, 2018
Brian Abrams, “Obama: An Oral History, 2009-2017” (Little A, 2018)
Aug 21, 2018
Mary E. Stuckey, “Political Vocabularies: FDR, The Clergy Letters, and the Elements of Political Argument” (Michigan State UP, 2018)
Aug 20, 2018
Suzanne Mettler, “The Government-Citizen Disconnect” (Russell Sage Foundation Press, 2018)
Aug 09, 2018
Thomas Ogorzalek, “The Cities on the Hill: How Urban Institutions Transformed National Politics” (Oxford UP, 2018)
Aug 03, 2018
Katherine Benton-Cohen, “Inventing the Immigration Problem: The Dillingham Commission and Its Legacy” (Harvard UP, 2018)
Jul 30, 2018
Jeffrey Dudas, “Raised Right: Fatherhood in Modern American Conservatism” (Stanford UP, 2018)
Jul 27, 2018
Clayton Nall, “The Road to Inequality: How the Federal Highway Program Polarized America and Undermine Cities” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Jul 19, 2018
Onnesha Roychoudhuri, “The Marginalized Majority: Claiming Our Power in a Post-Truth America” (Melville House, 2018)
Jul 13, 2018
Darren Speece, “Defending Giants: The Redwood Wars and the Transformation of American Environmental Politics” (U Washington Press, 2017)
Jul 12, 2018
Daniel Hopkins, “The Increasingly United States: How and Why American Political Behavior Nationalized” (U Chicago Press, 2018)
Jul 04, 2018
Rick Hasen, “The Justice of Contradictions: Antonin Scalia and the Politics of Disruption” (Yale UP, 2018)
Jun 25, 2018
Michael A. Cohen, “American Maelstrom: The 1968 Election and the Politics of Division” (Oxford UP, 2016)
Jun 22, 2018
Christopher W. Schmidt, “The Sit-Ins: Protest and Legal Change in the Civil Rights Era” (U Chicago Press, 2018)
Jun 22, 2018
Lily Geismer, “Don’t Blame Us: Suburban Liberalism and the Transformation of the Democratic Party” (Princeton UP, 2014)
Jun 19, 2018
Thomas B. Reston, “Soul of a Democrat: The Seven Core Ideals That Made Our Party and Our Country Great
Jun 18, 2018
Jacqueline Jones, “Goddess of Anarchy: The Life and Times of Lucy Parsons, American Radical” (Basic Books, 2017)
Jun 18, 2018
Are Citizens Polarized with Steven Kull
Jun 07, 2018
Avidit Acharya et al., “Deep Roots: How Slavery Still Shapes Southern Politics” (Princeton UP, 2018)
May 30, 2018
David Faris, “It’s Time to Fight Dirty: How Democrats Can Build a Lasting Majority in American Politics” (Melville House, 2018)
May 30, 2018
Beth Lew-Williams, “The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America” (Harvard UP, 2018)
May 28, 2018
Roderick P. Hart, “Civic Hope: How Ordinary Americans Keep Democracy Alive” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
May 24, 2018
Jeffrey Tulis and Nicole Mellow, “Legacies of Losing in American Politics” (University of Chicago Press, 2018)
May 23, 2018
Salena Zito and Brad Todd, “The Great Revolt: Inside the Populist Coalition Reshaping American Politics” (Crown Forum, 2018)
May 18, 2018
Jeffrey Lazarus and Amy Steigerwalt, “Gendered Vulnerability: How Women Work Harder to Stay in Office” (U Michigan Press, 2018)
May 17, 2018
Amanda Carpenter, “Gaslighting America: Why We Love It When Trump Lies to Us” (Broadside, 2018)
May 16, 2018
Stephen E. Strang, “God and Donald Trump” (Frontline, 2017)
May 11, 2018
Jesse Berrett, “Pigskin Nation: How the NFL Remade American Politics” (U Illinois Press, 2018)
May 09, 2018
Jeanine Kraybill, “Unconventional, Partisan, and Polarizing Rhetoric: How the 2016 Election Shaped the Way Candidates Strategize, Engage, and Communicate” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017)
Apr 03, 2018
Jesse Rhodes, “Ballot Blocked: The Political Erosion of the Voting Rights Act” (Stanford UP, 2017)
Mar 19, 2018
Matt K. Lewis, “Too Dumb to Fail: How the GOP Went from the Party of Reagan to the Party of Trump” (Hachette, 2016)
Mar 16, 2018
Arlie Russell Hochschild, “Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right” (New Press, 2016)
Mar 15, 2018
Hans Hassell, “The Party’s Primary: Control of Congressional Nominations” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Mar 05, 2018
Saladin Ambar, “American Cicero: Mario Cuomo and the Defense of American Liberalism” (Oxford UP, 2017)
Feb 28, 2018
Douglas Kriner and Eric Schickler, “Investigating the President: Congressional Checks on Presidential Power” (Princeton UP, 2016)
Feb 21, 2018
Marie Griffith, “Moral Combat: How Sex Divided American Christians and Fractured American Politics” (Basic Books, 2017)
Feb 20, 2018
David A. Hopkins, “Red Fighting Blue: How Geography and Electoral Rules Polarize American Politics” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Feb 12, 2018
Sam Rosenfeld, “The Polarizers: Postwar Architects of Our Partisan Era” (U Chicago Press, 2018)
Feb 05, 2018
Chris Zepeda-Millan, “Latino Mass Mobilization: Immigration, Racialization, and Activism” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Jan 22, 2018
Gregory Laski, “Untimely Democracy: The Politics of Progress after Slavery” (Oxford UP, 2018)
Jan 15, 2018
Mark Rozell and Clyde Wilcox, “God at the Grassroots 2016: The Christian Right in American Politics (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017)
Jan 07, 2018
Elizabeth McRae, “Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy” (Oxford UP, 2017)
Jan 01, 2018
Corey D. Fields, “Black Elephants in the Room: The Unexpected Politics of African American Republicans” (UC Press, 2016)
Dec 24, 2017
Frank Baumgartner, et al., “Deadly Justice: A Statistical Portrait of the Death Penalty” (Oxford UP, 2017)
Dec 22, 2017
Scott Kaufman, “Ambition, Pragmatism, and Party: A Political Biography of Gerald R. Ford” (University Press of Kansas, 2017)
Dec 22, 2017
Forrest Nabors, “From Oligarchy to Republicanism: The Great Task of Reconstruction” (U. Missouri Press, 2017)
Dec 13, 2017
Andrew R. Lewis, “The Rights Turn in Conservative Christian Politics: How Abortion Transformed the Culture Wars” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Nov 06, 2017
Christopher Baylor, “First to the Party: The Group Origins of Political Transformations” (Penn Press, 2017)
Oct 30, 2017
William J. Cooper, “The Lost Founding Father: John Quincy Adams and the Transformation of American Politics” (Liveright, 2017)
Oct 24, 2017
Daniel Bennett, “Defending Faith: The Politics of the Christian Conservative Legal Movement” (U. Press of Kansas, 2017)
Aug 21, 2017
Timothy LaPira, “Revolving Door Lobbying: Public Service, Private Influence, and the Unequal Representation of Interests” (U Press of Kansas, 2017)
Aug 14, 2017
Heather Silber Mohamed, “The New Americans? Immigration, Protest, and The Politics of Latino Identity” (U Press of Kansas, 2017)
Jul 31, 2017
Riki Wilchins, “TRANS/gressive: How Transgender Activists Took on Gay Rights, Feminism, the Media, and Congress…and Won!” (Riverdale Avenue Books, 2017)
Jul 26, 2017
Nathan Kalmoe and David Kinder, “Neither Liberal or Conservative: Ideological Innocence in the American Public (U. Chicago Press, 2017)
Jul 24, 2017
William Davenport Mercer, “Diminishing the Bill of Rights: Barron v. Baltimore and the Foundations of American Liberty” (U. Oklahoma Press, 2017)
Jul 06, 2017
David R. Mayhew, “The Imprint of Congress” (Yale UP, 2017)
Jul 03, 2017
Josh Chafetz, “Congress’s Constitution: Legislative Authority and the Separation of Powers” (Yale UP, 2017).
Jun 19, 2017
Mary E. Adkins, “Making Modern Florida: How the Spirit of Reform Shaped a New State Constitution” (University Press of Florida, 2016)
May 31, 2017
John Bohrer, “The Revolution of Robert Kennedy: From Power to Protest after JFK” (Bloomsbury, 2017)
May 25, 2017
Dean Kotlowski, “Paul V. McNutt and the Age of FDR” (Indiana UP, 2015)
Apr 02, 2017
Garrison Nelson, “John William McCormack: A Political Biography” (Bloomsbury Academic, 2017)
Mar 16, 2017
Kathleen Dolan, “When Does Gender Matter? Women Candidates and Gender Stereotypes in American Elections” (Oxford UP, 2014)
Feb 21, 2017
Anna Law, “The Immigration Battle in American Courts” (Cambridge UP, 2014)
Feb 13, 2017
Carol Hardy-Fanta and Dianne Pinderhughes, “Contested Transformation: Race, Gender, and Political Leadership in 21st Century America” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Feb 06, 2017
Paul Pedisich, “Congress Buys a Navy: Politics, Economics, and the Rise of American Naval Power, 1881-1921” (Naval Institute Press, 2016)
Jan 30, 2017
Robert Lacey, “Pragmatic Conservatism: Edmund Burke and His American Heirs” (Palgrave MacMillan, 2016)
Dec 12, 2016
Christopher Faricy, “Welfare for the Wealthy: Parties, Social Spending, and Inequality in the United States” (Cambridge UP, 2016)
Nov 12, 2016
J. Kevin Corder and Christina Wolbrecht, “Counting Women’s Ballots: Female Voters from Suffrage through the New Deal” (Cambridge UP, 2016)
Nov 07, 2016
Alison N. Novak, “Media, Millennials, and Politics: The Coming of Age of the Next Political Generation” (Lexington Books, 2016)
Nov 06, 2016
Matthew MacWilliams, “The Rise of Trump: America’s Authoritarian Spring” (Amherst College Press, 2016)
Oct 22, 2016
Frances Lee, “Insecure Majorities: Congress and the Perpetual Campaign” (U. of Chicago Press, 2016)
Oct 10, 2016
Terri Diane Halperin, “The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798: Testing the Constitution” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2016)
Sep 26, 2016
James E. Campbell, “Polarized: Making Sense of a Divided America” (Princeton UP, 2016)
Sep 26, 2016
Donald Kettl, “Escaping Jurassic Government: How to Recover America’s Lost Competence” (Brookings Press, 2016)
Sep 12, 2016
Ellen Fitzpatrick, “The Highest Glass Ceiling: Women’s Quest for the American Presidency” (Harvard UP, 2016)
Sep 02, 2016
Daniel Kreiss, “Prototype Politics: Technology-Intensive Campaigning and the Data of Democracy” (Oxford UP, 2016)
Aug 29, 2016
Joel K. Goldstein, “The White House Vice Presidency: The Path to Significance, Mondale to Biden” (U. of Kansas Press, 2016)
Aug 22, 2016
William S. Belko, “Philip Pendleton Barbour in Jacksonian America: An Old Republican in King Andrew’s Court” (U. of Alabama Press, 2016)
Aug 18, 2016
Zachary Roth, “The Great Suppression: Voting Rights, Corporate Cash, and the Conservative Assault on Democracy” (Crown, 2016)
Aug 10, 2016
James K. Libbey, “Alben Barkley: A Life in Politics” (U. Press of Kentucky, 2016)
Jul 13, 2016
Robert Boatright, ed. “The Deregulatory Moment? A Comparative Perspective on Changing Campaign Finance Laws” (U. of Michigan Press, 2015)
Jul 11, 2016
Marlene Trestman, “Fair Labor Lawyer: The Remarkable Life of New Deal Attorney and Supreme Court Advocate Bessie Margolin” (Louisiana State UP, 2016)
Jun 26, 2016
Scott Meinke, “Leadership Organizations in the House of Representatives: Party Participation and Partisan Politics” (U of Michigan Press, 2016)
Jun 20, 2016
Thomas Knock, “Rise of a Prairie Statesman: The Life and Times of George McGovern” (Princeton UP, 2016)
Jun 19, 2016
Lester K. Spence, “Knocking the Hustle: Against the Neoliberal Turn in Black Politics” (Punctum Books, 2016)
May 16, 2016
Mary Ziegler, “After Roe: The Lost History of the Abortion Debate” (Harvard UP, 2016)
May 10, 2016
Jefferson Cowie, “The Great Exception: The New Deal and the Limits of American Politics” (Princeton UP, 2016)
Apr 18, 2016
Daniel K. Williams, “Defenders of the Unborn: The Pro-Life Movement Before Roe v. Wade” (Oxford UP, 2016)
Apr 01, 2016
Steve Phillips, “Brown is the New White: How the Demographic Revolution Has Created a New American Majority” (The New Press, 2016)
Mar 21, 2016
Fowler, Franz, and Ridout, “Political Advertising in the United States” (Westview Press, 2016)
Mar 14, 2016
Samara Klar and Yanna Krupnikov, “Independent Politics: How American Disdain for Parties Leads to Political Inaction” (Cambridge UP, 2016)
Mar 07, 2016
Adam Seth Levine, “American Insecurity: Why Our Economic Fears Lead to Political Inaction” (Princeton UP, 2015)
Feb 24, 2016
Richard L. Hasen, “Plutocrats United: Campaign Money, the Supreme Court, and the Distortion of American Elections” (Yale UP, 2016)
Feb 15, 2016
Patrick Hagopian, “American Immunity: War Crime and the Limits of International Law” (U of Massachusetts Press, 2013)
Jan 26, 2016
Mark A. Smith, “Secular Faith: How Culture Has Trumped Religion in American Politics” (University of Chicago Press, 2015)
Dec 07, 2015
Marc J. Hetherington and Thomas J. Rudolph, “Why Washington Won’t Work” (U of Chicago Press, 2015)
Nov 16, 2015
Eitan Hersh, “Hacking the Electorate: How Campaigns Perceive Voters” (Cambridge UP, 2015)
Nov 03, 2015
Daniel Schlozman, “When Movements Anchor Parties: Electoral Alignments in American History” (Princeton University Press, 2015)
Oct 27, 2015
James Curry, “Legislating in the Dark: Information and Power in the House of Representatives” (U of Chicago Press, 2015)
Oct 13, 2015
David Sehat, “The Jefferson Rule: How the Founding Fathers Became Infallible and the Our Politics Inflexible” (Simon and Schuster, 2015)
Sep 26, 2015
George H. Nash, ed., “The Crusade Years, 1933-1955: Herbert Hoover’s Lost Memoir of the New Deal Era and Its Aftermath” (Hoover Institution Press, 2013)
Sep 02, 2015
Natalia Molina, “How Race is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts” (University of California Press, 2014)
Sep 02, 2015
Leah Wright Rigueur, “The Loneliness of the Black Republican: Pragmatic Politics and the Pursuit of Power” (Princeton UP, 2015)
Aug 16, 2015
Kristin Soltis Anderson, “The Selfie Vote: Where Millennials Are Leading America (And How Republicans Can Keep Up)” (Broadside, 2015)
Aug 04, 2015
David George Surdham, “The Big Leagues Go to Washington: Congress and Sports Antitrust, 1951-1989” (U of Illinois Press, 2015)
Jul 24, 2015
Julian E. Zelizer, “The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society” (Penguin, 2015)
Jul 06, 2015
Jennifer L. Lawless and Richard L. Fox, “Running from Office: Why Young Americans Are Turned off to Politics” (Oxford UP, 2015)
Jun 28, 2015
Kyle Mattes and David Redlawsk, “The Positive Case for Negative Campaigning” (U of Chicago Press 2014)
Jun 14, 2015
Michael G. Miller, “Subsidizing Democracy: How Public Funding Changes Elections and How it Can Work in the Future” (Cornell UP, 2014)
Jun 09, 2015
Sophia Z. Lee, “The Workplace Constitution from the New Deal to the New Right” (Cambridge UP, 2014)
Jun 03, 2015
Peter Hanson, “Too Weak to Govern: Majority Party Power and Appropriations in the U.S. Senate” (Cambridge University Press, 2014)
May 05, 2015
Joseph E. Uscinski and Joseph M. Parent, “American Conspiracy Theories” (Oxford UP, 2014)
Apr 27, 2015
Jennifer Delton, “Rethinking the 1950s: How Anticommunism and the Cold War Made America Liberal” (Cambridge UP, 2014
Apr 23, 2015
Matthew Green, “Underdog Politics: The Minority Party in the U.S. House of Representatives” (Yale UP, 2015)
Apr 20, 2015
Michelle Nickerson, “Mothers of Conservatism: Women and the Postwar Right” (Princeton UP, 2012)
Mar 18, 2015
Doug McAdam and Karina Kloos, “Deeply Divided: Racial Politics and Social Movements in Postwar America” (Oxford UP 2014)
Mar 15, 2015
J. Douglas Smith, “On Democracy’s Doorstep” (Hill and Wang, 2014)
Feb 20, 2015
Don H. Doyle, “The Cause of All Nations: An International History of the American Civil War” (Basic Books, 2015)
Feb 16, 2015
Deana A. Rohlinger, “Abortion Politics, Mass Media, and Social Movements in America” (Cambridge UP, 2015)
Feb 16, 2015
Thomas F. Schaller, “The Stronghold: How Republicans Captured Congress but Surrendered the White House” (Yale UP, 2015)
Jan 29, 2015
Frank R. Baumgartner and Bryan D. Jones, “The Politics of Information: Problem Definition and the Course of Public Policy in America ( U Chicago Press, 2014)
Jan 19, 2015
Michael Heaney and Fabio Rojas, “Party in the Street: The Antiwar Movement and the Democratic Party after 9/11” (Cambridge UP, 2014)
Jan 07, 2015
Daniel O. Prosterman, “Defining Democracy: Electoral Reform and the Struggle for Power in New York City” (Oxford UP, 2013)
Dec 20, 2014
Brian Purnell, “Fighting Jim Crow in the County of Kings” (UP of Kentucky, 2014)
Nov 25, 2014
Steven Conn, “Americans Against the City: Anti-Urbanism in the Twentieth Century” (Oxford UP, 2014)
Nov 12, 2014
Brian Arbour, “Candidate-Centered Campaigns: Political Messages, Winning Personalities, and Personal Appeals” (Palgrave-MacMillan 2014)
Nov 03, 2014
Terry Golway, “Machine Made: Tammany Hall and the Creation of Modern American Politics” (Liveright, 2014)
Oct 31, 2014
Matthew Huber, “Lifeblood: Oil, Freedom, and the Forces of Capital” (U of Minnesota Press, 2013)
Oct 17, 2014
Marci A. Hamilton, “God vs. the Gavel: Religion and the Rule of Law” (Cambridge UP, 2014)
Jun 07, 2014
Dede Feldman, “Inside the New Mexico Senate: Boots, Suits, and Citizens” (University of New Mexico Press, 2014)
May 12, 2014
Jennifer Stromer-Galley, “Presidential Campaigning in the Internet Age” (Oxford UP, 2014)
May 05, 2014
Donald T. Critchlow, “When Hollywood Was Right” (Cambridge UP, 2013)
Apr 27, 2014
Nicholas Carnes, “White-Collar Government: The Hidden Role of Class in Economic Policy Making” (University of Chicago Press, 2013)
Mar 31, 2014
Sarah Anzia, “Timing and Turnout: How Off-Cycle Elections Favor Organized Groups” (University of Chicago Press 2013)
Mar 24, 2014
Daniel Lewis, “Direct Democracy and Minority Rights: A Critical Assessment of the Tyranny of the Majority in the American States” (Routledge, 2013)
Mar 03, 2014
Kristin A. Goss, “The Paradox of Gender Equality: How American Women’s Groups Gained and Lost Their Public Voice” (University of Michigan Press 2013)
Jan 27, 2014
Yuval Levin, “The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left” (Basic Books, 2013)
Jan 04, 2014
Stephen Medvic, “In Defense of Politicians: The Expectations Trap and Its Threat to Democracy” (Routledge, 2013)
Dec 23, 2013
William G. Howell et al., “The Wartime President” (University of Chicago Press, 2013)
Dec 09, 2013
Glenn Feldman, “The Irony of the Solid South: Democrats, Republicans, and Race, 1865-1944” (University of Alabama Press, 2013)
Nov 25, 2013
Stella M. Rouse, “Latinos in the Legislative Process: Interests and Influence” (Cambridge UP, 2013)
Oct 14, 2013
Venessa Williamson and Theda Skocpol, “The Tea Party: Remaking of Republican Conservatism” (Oxford UP, 2012)
Aug 26, 2013
William G. Howell (with David Brent), “Thinking about the Presidency: The Primacy of Power” (Princeton UP, 2013)
Jul 29, 2013
Barbara Palmer and Dennis Simon, “Women and Congressional Elections: A Century of Change” (Lynne Rienner, 2012)
Jul 22, 2013
Andrew J. Taylor, “Congress: A Performance Appraisal” (Westview Press 2013)
Jul 15, 2013
Drew Maciag, “Edmund Burke in America: The Contested Career of the Father of Modern Conservatism” (Cornell UP, 2013)
Jun 28, 2013
Christopher Tienken and Donald Orlich, “The School Reform Landscape: Fraud, Myth, and Lies” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2013)
May 13, 2013
Daniel McCool, “The Most Fundamental Right: Contrasting Perspectives on the Voting Rights Act” (Indiana UP, 2012)
Feb 27, 2013
Scott Farris, “Almost President: The Men Who Lost the Race But Changed the Nation” (Lyons Press, 2011)
Jan 30, 2013
Scott Melzer, “Gun Crusaders: The NRA’s Culture War” (NYU Press, 2012)
Dec 13, 2012
Thomas Holyoke, “Competitive Interests: Competition and Compromise in American Interest Group Politics” (Georgetown University Press, 2011)
Nov 28, 2012
LIsa Bedolla and Melissa Michelson, “Mobilizing Inclusion: Transforming the Electorate through Get-Out-The-Vote Campaigns” (Yale University Press 2012).
Oct 15, 2012
Daniel Kreiss, “Taking Our Country Back: The Crafting of Networked Politics from Howard Dean to Barack Obama” (Oxford UP, 2012)
Sep 15, 2012
Mitchel Sollenberger, “The President’s Czars: Undermining Congress and the Constitution” (University of Kansas Press, 2012)
Jun 29, 2012
Enid Logan, “At this Defining Moment: Barack Obama’s Presidential Candidacy and the New Politics of Race” (NYU Press, 2011)
Jun 08, 2012
Jay Cost, “Spoiled Rotten: How the Politics of Patronage Corrupted the Once Noble Democratic Party and Now Threatens the American Republic” (Broadside Books, 2012)
Jun 01, 2012
Tim Groseclose, “Left Turn: How Liberal Media Bias Distorts the American Mind” (St. Martin’s Press, 2011)
Dec 22, 2011
Phil Kerpen, “Democracy Denied: How Obama is Ignoring You and Bypassing Congress to Radically Transform America and How to Stop Him” (BenBella Books, 2011)”
Dec 16, 2011
Martha Minow, “In Brown’s Wake: Legacies of America’s Educational Landmark” (Oxford UP, 2011)
Sep 07, 2011
Tamara Metz, “Untying the Knot: Marriage, the State, and the Case for Their Divorce” (Princeton UP, 2010)
Aug 04, 2011
Houston A. Baker, “Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Era” (Columbia UP, 2008)
Aug 04, 2011
Gregory Koger, “Filibustering: A Political History of Obstruction in the House and Senate” (University of Chicago Press, 2010)
Jun 14, 2011
David Farber, “The Rise and Fall of Modern American Conservatism” (Princeton UP, 2010)
Nov 05, 2010
Tony Michels, “Fire in their Hearts: Yiddish Socialists in New York” (Harvard UP, 2005)
Apr 10, 2009
Matt Wasniewski, et al., “Black Americans in Congress, 1870-2007” (U.S. House of Representatives, 2008)
Jan 15, 2009
Laura Wittern-Keller, “The Miracle Case: Film Censorship and the Supreme Court” (University of Kansas Press, 2008)
Nov 07, 2008
Donald A. Ritchie, “Electing FDR: The New Deal Campaign of 1932” (University Press of Kansas, 2007)
Apr 25, 2008
Matt Wasniewski, “Women in Congress, 1917-2006” (U.S. House of Representatives, 2007)
Mar 03, 2008