American political history has been built around narratives of crisis, in which what “counts” are the moments when seemingly stable political orders collaps
The history of public policy in postwar America tends to fixate on developments at the national level, overlooking the crucial work done by individual states in
Mid-twentieth-century Florida was a state in flux. Changes exemplified by rapidly burgeoning cities and suburbs, the growth of the Kennedy Space Center during t
Unassuming but formidable, American maritime insurers used their position at the pinnacle of global trade to shape the new nation. The international information
This book tracks the dramatic outcomes of the federal government's growing involvement in higher education between World War I and the 1970s, and the conservati