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The UN, the WHO, and the Future of U.S. Diplomacy	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
Emancipation by What Means?	Revisiting Long Histories of the Reparations Debate	When Free Trade Meant Something Else
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

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