Product Description: The first mass political parties appeared in the United States in the 1830's, as the majority of adult white males identified ardently with the Democratic and Whig parties. Ronald Formisano opens a window on American political culture in this case study of antebellum voting and party formation in Michigan...read more

Product Description: The growing gap between the most affluent Americans and the rest of society is changing the country into one defined―more than almost any other developed nation―by exceptional inequality of income, wealth, and opportunity. This book reveals that an infrastructure of inequality, both open and hidden, obstructs the great majority in pursuing happiness, living healthy lives, and exercising basic rights...read more

Product Description: For the People offers a new interpretation of populist political movements from the Revolution to the eve of the Civil War and roots them in the disconnect between the theory of rule by the people and the reality of rule by elected representatives...read more

Explores the sources of white opposition to school desegregation in Boston in the 1970s (view table of contents)

Product Description: In 1957, the Maine Lobstermen's Association (MLA) called for strikes after prices dropped for the second year in a row. This text examines the ensuing trial between the MLA and the US Justice Department, as well as looking at the industry itself and the aftermath of the controversy...read more