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“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	From Sea to Shining Sea

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