How have memes changed politics?

The authors argue that there are dimensions to the broadening of the US federal government into new areas of public life largely overlooked by previous scholars...

Our conversation examines the intersections of gender and sexuality, and is they relate to her her research on eugenics, white nationalists, the alt-right, and the alt-lite...

What happened to the Democratic Party after the 1960s?

Reflecting on his fifty-year effort to steer the Grand Old Party toward black voters, Memphis power broker George W. Lee declared, "Somebody had to stay in the Republican Party and fight."

When hate groups descended on Charlottesville, Virginia, triggering an eruption of racist violence, the tragic conflict reverberated throughout the world...

Ghosh interrogates three arenas of debate over LGBT+ rights in the contemporary American landscape...

Sidorsky combines qualitative and quantitative research to examine appointed and elected state positions...

Sometimes people are blameworthy or otherwise not admirable because of what they believe....

McCarty synthesizes what scholars know and don't know about the origins, development, and implications of rising political conflicts in the United States...

Red State Revolt explains the emergence and development of the historic wave of teacher strikes in Arizona, West Virginia, and Oklahoma.

Borrowing from the language of the activists themselves, Janda dubs midwestern student protest to be “Prairie Power"...

They introduce the concept of ‘dueling fact perceptions’ based on years of research, and for our interview, Morgan Marietta explains how they arrived at such conclusions and their implications for our country’s future...

The historian Nick Estes traces two centuries of Indigenous-led resistance and anti-colonial struggle...

In 1956 Albert Gore, Sr. received national attention as one of only three senators from the states of the former Confederacy who refused to sign the infamous “Southern Manifesto” opposing the racial integration of public spaces...

The modern progressive movement is rising in influence, intensity and numbers. Just where did it come from and where is it going?

Rule-making may rarely make headlines, but the significance of this largely hidden process cannot be underestimated...

Merriman's book new book explores what he calls uncooperative federalism. He finds a deliberate conservative strategy to use the courts and state executive power to resist federal influence in state affairs...

Russo explores how solidarity activists contest the practices of the US security state both within its borders and abroad. Russo follows three social movement organizations...

"Mediating Morality" is a contemporary exploration of the construction of teen pregnancy in legal events, activism, media campaigns, television, film, and across many domains of popular-political culture since the dismantling of the welfare state, which Daniel definitively places in the year 1996...

Melennials have experienced much trauma in the last decade, especially as a result of the Great Recession of 2008.

De Kosnik and Feldman bring together a broad array of chapters that dive into multiple perspectives on social media engagement, especially around hashtag activism and the ways that individuals think about and interact with others via Twitter in regard to social movements and political involvement...

No, not the Lincoln-Douglas debates. Perhaps even more important than that Illinois contest of 1858 was the Webster-Hayne debate of 1830.

Eisen describes the cycles of democracy that occurred as public support waxed and waned over the years...