Miller considers the impact of state-level public election financing on political campaigns through the eyes of candidates.

Joy Rohde traces the optimistic rise, anguished fall, and surprising rebirth of Cold War–era military-sponsored social research.

William Michael Schmidli argues that Argentina emerged as the defining test case of Jimmy Carter’s promise to bring human rights to the center of his administration’s foreign policy.

An engaging history of the people and policies that profoundly transformed the American landscape—and the daily lives of Americans.

The first comprehensive history of Supplemental Security Income (SSI), written by a leading historian of America's welfare state and the former chief historian of the Social Security Administration.

This fascinating book chronicles the evolution—or rather devolution—of New York City politics through through the first seven decades of the twentieth century.

A critical analysis of the nationwide effort to dismantle public housing by focusing on the impact of policy changes in three cities: Atlanta, Chicago, and New Orleans.

A new history of the origins of America's space program and a reassessment Eisenhower's leadership during this critical Cold War moment.

The Peace Puzzle tracks the American determination to articulate policy, develop strategy and tactics, and see through negotiations to agreements on an issue that has been of singular importance to U.S. interests for more than forty years.

The idea that citizens' advancement should depend exclusively on merit, on qualities that deserve reward rather than on bloodlines or wire-pulling, was among the Founding ideals of the American republic, Joseph F. Kett argues in this book.