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Little Helpers
In Little Helpers, historian John Robert Greene provokes us to rethink the scandals of Harry Truman’s presidency by providing the first political biography of the man who …
Mound City
Nearly one thousand years ago, Native Americans built a satellite suburb of ancient America’s great metropolis, Cahokia, on the site that later became St. Louis. At its height, as …
Schools for Scandal
For well over a century, big-time college sports has functioned as a business enterprise, one that serves to undermine the mission of institutions of higher education. This book …
The Social Contract in the Ruins
Scholars who write on the relationship of natural moral law to social contract theory view the principles of these theories as in conflict and unreconcilable. For example, if …
Pressing the Police and Policing the Press
In the second half of 2020 and continuing into 2021, protests against racial injustice spread across the United States after the death of George Floyd while in the custody of …
The Brazil Chronicles
As a young journalist at the Brazil Herald from 1979-81, Stephen G. Bloom spent his formative years working in Rio’s seedy Lapa district, surrounded by expatriates, drug runners, …
Life-Altering
Even before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, when roughly half of all U.S. states moved to ban or significantly curtail abortion, people across large swaths …
The Ivory Tower, Harry Potter, and Beyond
In her follow-up to The Ivory Tower and Harry Potter, Lana A. Whited has compiled a new collection of essays analyzing the books, films, and other media by J. K. Rowling. This …
Chasing the Shadow
The life of David “Mickey” Marcus has become the stuff of legends and myths (even fantasy), conspiracy, wild exaggeration, and untethered embellishment. The image of Marcus cast by …
No Average Day
October 24, 1944, is not a day of national remembrance. Yet, more Americans serving in World War II perished on that day than on December 7, 1941, when the Japanese attacked Pearl …
Reforming Legislatures
Legislatures are ubiquitous in the American political experience. First created in Virginia in 1619, they have existed continuously ever since. Indeed, they were established in …