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A Bullet in the Chamber: The Politics of Catastrophe and the Declaration of World War I
African American Political History
America First? Isolationism and U.S. Global Engagement in Historical Perspective
American Conservatism and Right-Wing Movements in the Twentieth Century
American Political Parties and the Problem of "Race" in the Modern Era
American Politics from Roosevelt to Obama
Americanism and Entitlement: The Paradox of Big Government since World War II
Andrew Jackson in the Age of Trump
Angry Whites and Donald Trump: The Inequality in America That We Have Not Addressed
Are We Rome or Greece? America's Infatuation with Classical Antiquity
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Balancing Liberty and Security in our Democracy
Barack Obama and the American Political Tradition
Barack Obama as History
Barack Obama, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Long History of African American Politics
Behind the Scenes: Women Leaders and Conservative Movement Politics, 1950-1965
Beyond the Jewish Lobby: American Jews and American Politics after the 1960s
Bill and Hillary: The Politics of the Personal
Breaking the Highest Glass Ceiling: Shirley Chisholm, Hillary Clinton, and the Future
Broken By Design: The Undemocratic Origins of American Democracy
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California and the Future of U.S. Politics
Can We Create a Dialogue Between Left-Wing and Right-Wing Interpretations of American History?
Capitalism and Democracy in America
Changes in Latitude, Changes in Attitude: The 1970s' Shift in American Culture and Politics
Circling the Wagons: Conservative Movement Politics and the Rise of Donald Trump
Clickbait Nation: How iCampaigns Changed American Politics
Conscience of a Black Conservative: Modern Black Politics and the Long History of Black Conservatism
Conservative Politics in Twentieth-Century America
Courting Trouble? An Unadulterated History of Marriage
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Democratic Limits and Potentials of Social Media
Democratic Science: The Politics of Knowledge in Jacksonian America
Did the Warren Commission Get It Right? What we know today about the Kennedy assassination
Dirty Nasty Politics in Early America
Donald Trump and Populist Conservatism
Donald Trump and the History of Right-Wing Populism in the United States
Donald Trump and the New McCarthyism
Dueling as Politics: Reinterpreting the Burr-Hamilton Duel
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"Everyone was in the Loop": Impeachment in Historical Perspective
Electing America: Six Campaigns That Reshaped the Modern United States
Eyes Abroad: The Neglected Political History of Foreign Correspondents
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Fakes and Frauds in Modern America
Family Quarrels and the History of Federalism
Fascism Comes to America
Federalism, Sectionalism, and the Union
Financing the Counterrevolution: Conservative Foundations and the Rise of the New Right
For the Many: America's Progressive Politics and the Global Women Who Made It
G
Gender and Politics in Post-World War II America
God, Sex, and Walmart in the Conservative Ascendancy
God-Talk and American Politics: Contraception, Science, and Sex Education
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"Huggermuggered and Suppressed": Hardball Politics and the Ratification of the Constitution
Hamilton's America
Have We Been Here Before? Trumpism and the Question of Historical Precedent
Henry Kissinger and the American Century
Henry Kissinger and the Dilemmas of American Power
Historical Thinking in the Age of Trump
How Anticommunism and the Cold War Made America Liberal
How Did We Get into this Mess? The Roots of Political Polarization
How Politics Got America Deeper into Vietnam
How Politics Worked 200 Years Ago and How It Compares to Politics Today
How the Great Society Transformed American Politics
How the South Became Republican, or a History of Red-State America
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Immigrants Out: A History of American Xenophobia
Immigration and Anti-Immigration in U.S. History
Impolitic Politics: Free Speech, Censorship, and Civility in the Age of Trump
Inequality, Diversity, and the Rise of Trump
Intellectual Roots of Trump's Anti-Intellectualism
Is the Supreme Court a Political Institution? An Eighteenth-Century View
J
J. Edgar Hoover and the American Century
Joseph McCarthy: What His Influence Tells Us about the Fifties and Our Times
Joseph P. Kennedy and Ethnic Politics
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Leading a Divided America: Barack Obama and the Age of Fracture
Legacies of the New Deal
Lincoln, Douglas, and the Fate of a Nation
Losing the Battle but Winning the War: Sandra Day O’Connor, Ronald Reagan, and the Rise of the New Right
Lost in the U.S.A.: The 1990s Marches as a Referendum on America
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Mad Dogs and Other New Yorkers: American Governance and the Politics of Animal Control, 1850–1920
Majority Rule, Equal Rights, and Limited Government: The Complex Legacy of Andrew Jackson
Marcus Garvey, the UNIA, and the Hidden Political History of African Americans
McCarthyism in America: Political Repression during the Early Cold War
Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11: How One Film Divided a Nation
Modern Conservatism
My Home Town: Donald Trump in the Rust Belt
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Passion and Political Economy: Romantic Arguments for Early American Settler Colonialism
Passion, Prejudice, and Policy: Andrew Jackson in the White House
Paying for Health Care in the United States: Historical Perspectives
Philanthropy and Plutocracy
Placing Donald Trump in the History of American Conservatism
Political Repression in America from the Puritans to the Patriot Act
Populism against Democracy
Populism, Pseudo-Populism, and the Enduring Appeal of Both Forces in U.S. Political Culture over Time
Post-1989 Shifts in U.S. Foreign Policy, the Rise of the Global Right, and the Election of Donald Trump
Presidential Misconduct: The Long View
Public Emblem, Private Realm: Marital Supremacy in U.S. History
Puerto Rican Citizen
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Race and Nationalism in American History
Racial Liberalism
Radical Generations: The Making and Maintenance of Left Coast Political Traditions
Realism or Retreat: The Obama Doctrine in Historical Perspective
Reckless Minds: European Ideas in American Politics
Religion and Politics in Modern America
Religious Conservatism and Liberalism in the Age of Trump
Religious Right, Alt-Right, and Neoliberal "Rights": What the Recent Past Tells Us about the State of LGBTQ Rights in the Trump Presidency
Republic of Spin: A Backstage History of American Politics
Republicans and Race in the Modern Era
Rethinking Black Power and Black Politics
Rethinking the Crisis of Democratic Theory: Walter Lippmann, John Dewey, and H.L. Mencken in the 1920s
Rethinking the History of American Democracy
Right-Wing Politics in America and across the Globe
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San Francisco's Liberal Turn after World War II
Senator Joe McCarthy: The Verdict of History
Separation of Powers
Southern Cross, North Star: The Politics of Region, Irreconciliation, and Civil War Memory in the American Heartland
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The "New World Order" Conspiracy Theory in American History
The 2016 Presidential Election and the Transformation of the Blue State—Red State Electoral Map: Retrospect and Prospect
The Academic as Politician: Running for Public Office in 2016
The Americas' Last Colony: Puerto Rico and the United States
The Black Panthers and American Democracy
The Business of America: Business and Politics in American History
The Causes of Conservative Victory, 1964-2004
The Christian Right between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan
The Civil Rights Movement and the Rise of Modern Black Conservatism: Rethinking Alliances, Allegiances, and the Complexities of Political Culture
The Cuban Missile Crisis, a Very Close Call
The Cult of the Entrepreneur and the Rise of Donald Trump: How Faith in Capitalist Innovation Restructured American Democracy
The Dilemmas of Difference in American Democracy
The Embattled Vote in America
The Failure and Success of American Radicalism
The Field of Blood: Congressional Violence in Antebellum America
The Folklore of Southern Demagoguery
The Gifted Generation: When Government Was Good
The Historical Origins of the Obama Presidency in Chicago's South Side
The History of Our Populist Presidency: Traditions of Anti-Elitism in American Politics
The History of the Democratic Party
The History of the Republican Party
The Illiberal Tradition in America
The Invention of Immigration as a Policy Problem
The Legacy of Progressivism in the Trump Era
The Liberal Legacy of John F. Kennedy
The Loneliness of the Black Republican: Pragmatic Politics and the Pursuit of Power
The Long Rise and Short Decline of American Democracy
The Murky Past and Contested Future of the Electoral College
The Muzzled Teacher: American Public Schools and the Limits of Freedom
The Myth of Black Nationalism in America
The New Right in Historical Perspective
The Ominous Clang: Fears of Propaganda from World War I to World War II
The Origins of the New Right
The Origins of Today’s Koch-Funded Radical Right and the Crisis of Our Democracy
The Paternalist Insurgency in the Old South, 1800-1840
The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy
The People's Will Denied? Backroom Politics and the Election of 1824
The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln
The Politics of Womanhood: From the Progressive Era to Trump World
The Presidential Election of 1801 - A Speculative History
The Price of Liberty: The New Right's Sexual Politics from Phyllis Schlafly to Karl Rove
The Quietly Developing Democratization of Wealth
The Reagan Presidency: Controversies and Legacies
The Rise of Religion in Modern America
The Rise of the American Right
The Rise of the Modern American Fiscal State
The Role of "Big Government" in American Life, or, What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?
The Roots of Reaganism
The Senate Filibuster
The Silent Majority
The Social History of the Trump Vote, 1968–2016
The Splendid Dead: An Intimate History of America's First Age of Terror
The State and Democracy in America
The Strange Career of Black Liberalism
The Supreme Court in the Balance: The Role of the Swing Justice
The Treason Trials of Aaron Burr
The United States of Trumpistan?
The Use and Abuse of Americanism
The War on the War on Poverty: A Fifty-Year Perspective
The Water's Edge: Domestic Politics and American Foreign Policy Reconsidered
The Way Things Used To Be? The Politics of Nostalgia in Contemporary America
Thomas Jefferson, Politician
Thomas Paine and the Problem of Democracy in the Early American Republic
Trump and Evangelical America: The Rise (and Fall?) of the Religious Right
Trump and the Republican Party: Continuities and Ruptures
TRUMP! The First Pop Culture President
Trump's America in Historical Perspective: The War against Women, the Fight against Unions, and the Assault against Mexicans, African Americans, and Muslims
Twentieth-Century U.S. Immigration Policy
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U.S. Twentieth-Century Diplomatic and Political History
Ulysses S. Grant and the Problem of Political Violence during Reconstruction
Understanding American Evangelicalism in the Age of Trump
Understanding the Workers of Trumpland: How History Shaped the Politics of 2016
Union Veterans and the Rise of Interest-Group Politics
Untidy Origins: Women's Political Identities in the Nineteenth Century
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Veterans in American Politics
Virtue, Corruption, and Household Politics in the Election of 2016
Voting Rights and Redistricting in Recent American History
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War, Politics, and Slavery
Was There a Southern Strategy? Race, Politics, and Conservatism
What Do Conservatives Want to Conserve?
What's Wrong with History
When We Were Liberal
Who Cared about States' Rights?
Who's Afraid of Senator Byrd? Constitutionalism and American History
Why Have Americans Found It So Hard to Define Philanthropy Legally? And Why Does It Matter for the Future of Democracy in America?
William Jennings Bryan and the Fate of the Christian Left
Women and Modern Conservatism
Women Who Ran for President
Wrestling with Strom Thurmond: Race, Region, and the Rise of the American Right
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1800: The Personal and the Political
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