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The American Dream after Covid-19	“Give Earth a Chance”: Earth Day and the Politics of Modern Environmentalism	Dirty Water: Federal Deregulation and the Re-Polluting of America
A Century of Sanctions	A History of Stolen Citizenship	American Presidential Scandals
Beware of Greeks Bearing Gifts: How Neo-Nazis and Ancient Greeks Met in Charlottesville	Canada’s Dark Side: Indigenous Peoples and Canada’s 150th Celebration	America's Long-Suffering Mental Health System
What We Talk About When We Talk About Confederate Monuments	How Public and Private Enterprise Have Built American Infrastructure	Interracial Marriage in "Post-Racial" America
Russia, America, and the Conspiratorial Worldview	Are Women People? The Equal Rights Amendment Then and Now	From Fat Cats to Egg Heads: The Changing American "Elite"
Treaties and Sovereign Performances, from Westphalia to Standing Rock	Trade Wars: The Collapse of America's Free Trade Consensus	Media and Politics in the Age of Trump
Madame President: A History of the Women Who Ran before Hillary	Policing the Police: A Civil Rights Story	From Harlem to Ferguson: LBJ's War on Crime and America's Prison Crisis
The West without Water: What Can Past Droughts Tell Us About Tomorrow?	Good Guys and Bad Guys with Guns: Gun Control in Canada and the U.S.	An Enemy Until You Need A Friend: The Role of "Big Government" in American History
The Illegalization of Marijuana: A Brief History	People Were Skeptical about Veterans’ Hospitals, Too: The Affordable Care Act and Health Policy Precedents	America's "Big Brother": A Century of U.S. Domestic Surveillance
Justice Denied: The Killing of Trayvon Martin in Historical Perspective	Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: America's Love Affair with the Two-Party System	Should Age Matter? How 65 Came to Be Old and Old Came to Be Ill
Democratizing American Higher Education: The Legacy of the Morrill Land Grant Act	From Karl Marx to Karl Rove: “Class Warfare” in American Politics	Humanitarian Intervention: The American Experience from William McKinley to Barack Obama
Re-mapping American Politics: The Redistricting Revolution Fifty Years Later	Down and Out (Again): America’s Long Struggle with Mass Unemployment	Energy Policy and the Long Transition in America
WikiLeaks, and the Past and Present of American Foreign Relations	American Populism and the Persistence of the Paranoid Style	Where have you gone, Holden Caulfield? Why We Aren’t ‘Alienated’ Anymore
The Summer of ’10: Federal Power, Local Autonomy, and the Struggle over Immigration Policy	The Kids Aren’t Alright: The Policymaking of Student Loan Policy	Updating ‘No Child Left Behind:’ Change, or More of the Same
Child Kidnapping in America	Requiem: Detroit and the Fate of Urban America	Punishing the Past: Presidential Elections in Times of Crisis (1932, 1968, 2008)
A Tale of Two Fisheries: Fishing and Over-Fishing in American Waters	(Fore)Closing on the American Dream	Khrushchev’s Great American Road Trip
Common Good and Common Evil in American Religion	Blood Rules the Water: Kinship Diplomacy in Early America	Long Hot Summers and Separate Societies
From Forgotten Phrase to American Myth	Sanitizing American Tradition	The Old Informing the New
"Lone Wolves" No More	The American Civil War, Then and Now	Republican Character
“No law can change our blood"	Making it into the White House	“Allese Rondade”, that is to say, ‘Shoot!’”
A Who’s Who of Jihadi Terrorism in Europe	Poland Takes Charge of Its Own Revolution	The Imperial Presidency Pushes Back
There Are No Heroes Here: American Malaise in the Seventies	Casting the Long Shadow of the CIA	Coming to America to Contribute

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