J. Samuel Walker recounts the dramatic standoff between a populist Republican president and protesting college students-and what the crisis of higher education under President Nixon can teach us today. College students frustrated with the state of American society and foreign policy under a Republican president, rising up in protest across the ......
Thomas Jefferson and the Language of American Democracy
The Declaration of Independence is Thomas Jefferson's most enduring contribution, but his many lesserknown declarations offer essential lessons for what it takes to keep American democracy alive. Thomas Jefferson spent his life writing declarations. He believed that the written word could shape democracy, and he worked tirelessly to do so. ......
The Claremont Institute and the Making of the MAGA New Right
The eye-opening story of how a conservative think tank of political philosophers dedicated to the founding principles of the United States became the base of operations for Trump's agenda of destroying civil rights and undoing American democracy. From the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 and the Federalist Society's decades-long campaign to ......
An enduring story of how Kanza people (Kaw Nation citizens) and other collaborators worked together to bring a grandfather rock home, told through essay, poetry, oral history, and art. For almost a century, the city of Lawrence, Kansas displayed a 28-ton red quartzite boulder as a memorial to the town's founders. However, this boulder, ......
The Woman's Christian Temperance Union After 150 Years
In honor of the WCTU's 150th anniversary, Reassessing the White Ribbon Army provides a much-needed reflection on what was once the largest and most influential women's political organization in the United States. Originating as a series of local temperance crusades in 1873, the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) coalesced in November 1874 ......
The Woman's Christian Temperance Union After 150 Years
In honor of the WCTU's 150th anniversary, Reassessing the White Ribbon Army provides a much-needed reflection on what was once the largest and most influential women's political organization in the United States. Originating as a series of local temperance crusades in 1873, the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) coalesced in November 1874 ......
The Trump Elections and the Future of American Politics
A provocative and timely examination of how the American political parties have brought us to a crossroads for democracy-and where these new paths lead for the fragile American republic. Our recent elections have been anything but normal. In Democracy on the Edge, leading political scientists John Kenneth White and Matthew R. Kerbel unravel the ......
An esteemed group of scholars examines the lives and legacies of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson on the bicentennial of their death. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died hours apart on July 4, 1826-exactly fifty years after they drafted the Declaration of Independence. Adams and Jefferson were undoubtedly two of the most important and ......
An esteemed group of scholars examines the lives and legacies of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson on the bicentennial of their death. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died hours apart on July 4, 1826-exactly fifty years after they drafted the Declaration of Independence. Adams and Jefferson were undoubtedly two of the most important and ......