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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

B

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

C

California and the Future of U.S. Politics

Can We Create a Dialogue Between Left-Wing and Right-Wing Interpretations of American History?

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

D

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

Don't Blame the Workers: The Myth of Working-Class Conservatism

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

F

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

H

"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 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

I

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

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

L

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

M

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

S

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

T

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 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 Problem of Truth in the Age of Trump

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

Voting Rights and Redistricting in Recent American History

W

War, Politics, and Slavery

Was There a Southern Strategy? Race, Politics, and Conservatism

What Do Conservatives Want to Conserve?

What's Wrong with History

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