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 ......
A clear-eyed look at how political pressures and military influences led President Obama to significantly increase US involvement in the War in Afghanistan, even as the prospects for success seemed increasingly dim. Barack Obama entered the White House in 2009 with a mandate to end the wars and occupations begun under George W. Bush. The ......
A clear-eyed look at how political pressures and military influences led President Obama to significantly increase US involvement in the War in Afghanistan, even as the prospects for success seemed increasingly dim. Barack Obama entered the White House in 2009 with a mandate to end the wars and occupations begun under George W. Bush. The ......
In this concise history of the Louisiana Purchase, renowned presidential scholar Lara M. Brown explores how Thomas Jefferson's skilled diplomacy and political strategy helped secure the historic bargain and changed the course of American history. Thomas Jefferson is one of the more inscrutable characters in American history. While he is best ......
In this concise history of the Louisiana Purchase, renowned presidential scholar Lara M. Brown explores how Thomas Jefferson's skilled diplomacy and political strategy helped secure the historic bargain and changed the course of American history. Thomas Jefferson is one of the more inscrutable characters in American history. While he is best ......
An argument for understanding the separation of powers as a political arrangement designed to pursue the common democratic good
Beyond Checks and Balances seeks to rescue the democratic concept of the separation of powers from a popular caricature of it: that checks and balances exist between branches of ......
Abraham Lincoln and the Paradox of Democratic Sovereignty
The culmination of years of work on Abraham Lincoln's political thought, Michael P. Zuckert's A Nation So Conceived argues for a coherent center to Lincoln's political ideology, a core idea that unifies his thought and thus illuminates his deeds as a political actor. That core idea is captured in the term "democratic sovereignty." Zuckert provides ......
The Rise of Electoral Democracy in the Early American Republic
In this groundbreaking and comprehensive look at Congressional elections in pre-Jacksonian America, Jay K. Dow examines the origins of our modern electoral politics. When did the United States become a recognizably modern republic? The traditional understanding is that elections in the Age of Jackson introduced institutionalized political ......
