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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 Pay for Play A History of Big-Time College Athletic Reform by Ronald A. Smith.
Wagging the Dog
Cover of Philanthropy in America: A History by Olivier Zunz.
The Gifts That Keep On Giving
Cover of Patrick Henry: First Among Patriots by Thomas S. Kidd
Patriot or Pragmatist?
Rosie Castro with her sons, Joaquín, left, and Julián, April 23, 2006 (ZUMA Wire/San Antonio Express-News/Helen L. Montoya)
No Julian Castro without Mother Rosie Castro
This detail from an illustration in a 1911 Industrial Workers of the World publication depicts a class of workers struggling to hold up finely dressed elites while they drink and dine.
From Karl Marx to Karl Rove: “Class Warfare” in American Politics
Spraying Pesticides - NARA 1940
Fifty Years After “Silent Spring,” Let’s Not Roll Back Environmental Protections
Paul Ryan, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
Ryan’s Hope: A Vice Presidency in the Tradition of Dick Cheney and Joe Biden
In this detail from a political cartoon, a caring woman whose garment reads 'liberty' symbolizes this humanitarian impulse.
Humanitarian Intervention: The American Experience from William McKinley to Barack Obama
Rendering of the new National World War I Memorial in Washington DC
It’s Time for a National World War I Memorial
1864 reproduction of the Emancipation Proclamation from the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Obama’s Evolving Position on Same-Sex Marriage Is Similar to Lincoln’s Evolution on Antislavery
With running mate Paul Ryan in Norfolk, Virginia, during the vice presidential selection announcement on August 11, 2012
Vice Presidential Nominees Must Be Plausible As President
The statue of Saddam Hussein topples in Baghdad's Firdos Square on April 9, 2003.
A Century of U.S. Relations with Iraq
Rick Santorum at prayer, 2012
Rick Santorum and Fundamentalist Catholicism
Santorum speaking in Des Moines, Iowa in 2011
Rick Santorum Misunderstands Both Kennedy and Religious Pluralism
The political cartoon that led to the coining of the term Gerrymander.
Re-mapping American Politics: The Redistricting Revolution Fifty Years Later
Karzai with former US President George W. Bush and wife Laura Bush at Camp David in 2007.
Keep Karzai in the Loop
Children eating a meal as part of the School Lunch program at a classroom in Maryland. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Deputy Under Secretary Dr. Janey Thornton is present for an event to launch International School Meals Day on March 8, 2013. The class is video conferencing to a school in Ayrshire, Scotland, with some of their children visible on the screens.
Today’s School Feeding Programs Grew Out of the “Penny Lunch” Tradition of a Century Ago
U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt (left) and nature preservationist John Muir, founder of the Sierra Club, on Glacier Point in Yosemite National Park. In the background: Upper and lower Yosemite Falls.
Why Today’s Politicians Love Teddy Roosevelt
Hundreds of people who lost jobs when freezing weather hit California in January 2007 line up to register for the Disaster Unemployment Assistance program funded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Down and Out (Again): America’s Long Struggle with Mass Unemployment
"Freedom From Want" - NARA poster 1943
The Spirit of 1947: This Thanksgiving Feed a Silent Guest and Build World Peace
close-up of an Eisenhower US coin
“In God We Trust” or “E Pluribus Unum”? The American Founders Preferred the Latter Motto