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In this collection of essays, historians, political scientists and legal scholars examine significant instances in which legal reform produced something other than the foreseen result. Subjects addressed include: the intentions of the framers of the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights.

Acclaimed for nearly thirty years as the most comprehensive introduction to research in North American family and community history, and now thoroughly updated, this book is essential for aspiring and practicing public and local historians.

The most extensive bibliography of the depression era ever published, this volume lists retrospective books, articles, and doctoral dissertations that deal with American government, law, politics, economics, regional and local affairs, society, thought and culture, and foreign relations during this tumultuous period of modern American history. More than 4600 individual items are included, reflecting the considerable and ongoing interest in the...

Discover what everyday life was like for ordinary Americans during the decades of development and depression in the 1920s and 1930s.

The essays in this volume attempt to assess the foreign relations policies of the Reagan presidency while trying to make sense of Reagan's apparent inconsistencies. The contributors address US relations with the Soviet Union, East Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, Western Europe, and Africa.

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Essays by seven historians. John Lewis Gaddis argues that Reagan's record of dealing with the Soviets is equal or superior to that of Nixon and Kissinger, Akira Iriye praises the administration for improving relations with Japan, but the essays on Western Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Central America range from tempered to slashing criticism. A consensus on the foreign policy of the Reagan years will be a long time in coming. Foreign Aff...

The twenties and thirties witnessed dramatic changes in American life: increasing urbanization, technological innovation, cultural upheaval, and economic disaster. In this fascinating book, the prize-winning historian David Kyvig describes everyday life in these decades, when automobiles and home electricity became commonplace, when radio and the movies became broadly popular.

A buzz word in public life, "impeachment" was anything but that before 1960. This work chronicles the rise of a culture of impeachment since 1960 - one that extends far beyond the infamous scandals surrounding Presidents Richard Nixon (Watergate) and Bill Clinton (Monica Lewinsky) and has dramatically altered the face of American politics.