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JFK and Jackie Kennedy on a sailboat
Watching JFK Live and Die Years Later
Predator drone.
Aerial Torpedoes, Buzz Bombs, and Predators: The Long Cultural History of Drones
The GOP elephant and the Democratic Party's donkey.
Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: America's Love Affair with the Two-Party System
The Eve of Destruction: How 1965 Transformed America, by James T. Patterson Book Cover.
Capturing a Moment
State of War: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1945-2011, by Paul A. C. Koistinen Book Cover.
The Anatomy of the Military-Industrial Complex
Spirits of Defiance: National Prohibition and Jazz Age Literature, by Kathleen Drowne Book Cover
Spirits of Defiance: National Prohibition and Jazz Age Literature
Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism: A Woman's Crusade, by Donald Critchlow Book Cover.
Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism: A Woman's Crusade
American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century, by Kevin Phillips book cover.
American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century
Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy, by Eric D. Weitz Book Cover
Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy
Cover of Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North by Thomas J. Sugrue.
Movement North
Cover of Robert Clifton Weaver and the American City The Life and Times of an Urban Reformer by Wendell E. Pritchett.
Invisible Man
Cover of The Rise and Fall of Modern American Conservatism: A Short History by David Farber.
The Far Right Stuff
Cover of Zoot Suit The Enigmatic Career of an Extreme Style by Kathy Peiss.
A Suit, or a Statement?
Cover of Sexual Injustice Supreme Court Decisions from Griswold to Roe by Marc Stein.
The Sexual Revolution that Wasn’t Quite
Cover of A Strange Stirring The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s by Stephanie Coontz.
A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s
Cover of With Our Backs to the Wall Victory and Defeat in 1918 by David Stevenson.
The End of the War as They Knew It
A black and white photo of Barry Goldwater in 1962.
Rick Perry, Social Security, and the Ghost of Barry Goldwater
A young man stays connected on his cell phone as he strolls by a store advertising the Beatles' music on Apple's online store.
Where have you gone, Holden Caulfield? Why We Aren’t ‘Alienated’ Anymore
President Reagan in February 1985.
Will the GOP Find a New Reagan?
Images like these, of starving children and a malnourished population given to periodic famines, offer a human face to the long standing debate about whether India is "overpopulated" or "underdeveloped".
Population Bomb? The Debate over Indian Population
The Wilds' former home in Detroit, MI.
Requiem: Detroit and the Fate of Urban America
Republican Presidential Candidate Sen. John McCain and President George W. Bush.
Punishing the Past: Presidential Elections in Times of Crisis (1932, 1968, 2008)
'Taiwan is My Country' Sticker.
Taiwan's 2008 Elections: A New Direction for the 'Other China'?
First edition dust jacket cover of gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson's 1973 book Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72. The book conveys Thompson's experience covering the 1972 US presidential election, particularly the (ultimately unsuccessful) campaign of Democratic nominee George McGovern.
Democrats Must Beware the Curse of 1972