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Civil Rights in the United States
Thirty years ago, in his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail," Martin Luther King, Jr., appealed to the American people to support a "constructive nonviolent" struggle to create a …
Loss of Confidence
As the oil shortages, inflation, and unemployment of the 1970s disrupted American lives and the Watergate scandal rocked the presidency, faith in the future of the nation and its …
Health Care Policy in Contemporary America
Americans have benefited from substantial improvements in health since the end of World War II. They live longer and grow taller; they have the safest and cheapest food supply on …
Integrating the Sixties
Each essay in this volume sheds light on an important aspect of the decade—actually a decade and half—known as the Sixties. The Sixties are famous for the diverse social movements …
Urban Public Policy
The 1992 Los Angeles riots catapulted the problems of the city back onto the policy agenda. The cauldron of social problems of the city, as the riots showed, offers no simple …
Ruling Passions
In recent years, the Journal of Policy History has emerged as a major venue for scholarship on American policy history in the period after 1900. Indeed, it is for this reason that …
New Perspectives on Public Health Policy
The makers of public health policy face enormous challenges in the twenty-first century. In the past, their field has been imprecisely defined, deeply conflicted, poorly organized, …
Drug Control Policy
A detailed look at drug control policy as it has been shaped historically in the United States and other countries, most notably in China and East Asia.Drug policy has emphasized …
Refugees and the Asylum Dilemma in the West
This study presents an examination of the historical background and contemporary significance of the asylum and refugee issue confronting Western governments that draws lessons for …
The Politics of Abortion and Birth Control in Historical Perspective
While there is extensive literature on the social history, politics, and legal aspects of birth control and abortion in the United States, the history of family planning as a …
The Constitution and Public Policy in U.S. History
Despite its crucial importance in U.S. history, the study of the constitutional system fell out of favor with many historians and history departments for several decades during the …
Money and Politics
That large financial contributions distort American politics and American democracy is an idea that stands as a truism in political debate. It has fired reform movements; it has …