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CURRENT ISSUE - Vol. 25 No. 2 (Spring 2013)
Articles
Alan Lessoff and James J. Connolly
“From Political Insult to Political Theory: Machine Politics and the Pluralist City”
Thomas C. Lassman
“Reforming Weapon Systems Acquisition in the Department of Defense: The Case of the U.S. Army’s Advanced Attack Helicopter”
Patrick S. Roberts and Matthew Dull
“Guarding the Guardians: Oversight Appointees and the Search for Accountability in U.S. Federal Agencies”
John Gal and Mimi Ajzenstadt
“The Long Path from a Coup Kitchen to a Welfare State in Israel”
Gabriel Loiacono
“Poor Laws and the Construction of Race in Early Republican Providence, Rhode Island”
Critical Perspective
David M. Reimers
“‘More Liberal Than We Thought: A Note on Immediate Family Member Immigrants of United States Citizens”
PAST ISSUE - Vol. 25 No. 1 (Winter 2013)
Articles
David T. Courtwright
“Morality, Public Policy, and Partisan Politics in American History: An Introduction”
Ian Dowbiggin
“From Sander to Schiavo: Morality, Partisan Politics, and America’s Culture War over Euthanasia, 1950-2010”
Daniel K. Williams
“No Happy Medium: The Role of Americans’ Ambivalent View of Fetal Rights
in Political Conflict over Abortion Legalization”
Michael Nelson
“Morality, Public Policy, and State Politics: A Comparative Case Study of Gambling Legalization in Mississippi and Tennessee”
Beth Bailey
“The Politics of Dancing: ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ and the Role of Moral Claims”
Andrew Hartman
“‘A Trojan Horse for Social Engineering’: The Curriculum Wars in Recent American History”
PAST ISSUE - Vol. 24 No. 4 (Fall 2012)
Articles:
Iwan Morgan
“Monetary Metamorphosis: The Volcker Fed and Inflation”
Andrew R. Highsmith
“Prelude to the Subprime Crash: Beecher, Michigan, and the Origins of the Suburban Crisis”
K. Sabeel Rahman
“Democracy and Productivity: The Glass-Steagall Act and the Shifting Discourse of Financial Regulation”
Christy Ford Chapin
“‘Going Behind with that Fifteen Cent Policy’: Black-Owned Insurance Companies and the State”
Grant Madsen
“The International Origins of Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Political Economy”
Molly Michelmore
“’What Have You Done For Me Lately?’ The Welfare State, Tax Politics and the Search for a New Majority, 1968-1980”
PAST ISSUE - Vol. 24 No. 3 (Summer 2012)
Articles:
Monica Prasad
"The Popular Origins of Neoliberalism in the Reagan Tax Cut of 1981"
Ian Ostrander and William R. Lowry
"Oil Crises and Policy Continuity: A History of Failure to Change"
Thomas A. Krainz
"Fleeing the Big Burn: Refugees, Informal Assistance, and Progressive Era Welfare Practices"
Andrew Newman
"'An area previously determined to be the best adapted for such purposes': Nevada, Nuclear Waste and Assembly Joint Resolution 15 of 1975"
Jonathan Silberstein-Loeb
"Exclusivity and Cooperation in the Supply of News: The Example of the Associated Press, 1893-1945"
Kim MØller
"The Freedom to Drink and the Freedom to Sell Drink: A Hundred Years of Danish Alcohol Control Policy"
Kathryn Cramer Brownell
“'Movietime U.S.A.': The Motion Picture Industry Council, Ronald Reagan, and Hollywood’s Cold War Conservatism"
PAST ISSUE - Vol. 24 No. 1 (Winter 2012)
Articles:
Eileen Boris
Introduction: “Intersectional Perspectives in Policy History”
Catherine E. Rymph
“From ‘Economic Want’ to ‘Family Pathology’: Foster Family Care, the New Deal and the Emergence of a Public Child Welfare System”
Sarah Rose
“The Right to a College Education? The GI Bill, Public Law 16, and Disabled Veterans”
Kevin Mumford
“Untangling Pathology: The Moynihan Report and Homosexual Damage, 1965-1975”
Premilla Nadasen
“Citizenship Rights, Domestic Work, and the Fair Labor Standards Act”
Claire Bond Potter
“Paths to Political Citizenship: Gay Rights, Feminism and the Carter Presidency”
Marisa Chappell
“Reagan’s ‘Gender Gap’ Strategy and the Limitations of Free-Market Feminism”
Jennifer Mittelstadt
“Stepping into It: Lessons Learned from Entering the History You’re Writing”
PAST ISSUE - Vol. 24 No. 2 (Spring 2012)
Beverly Gage
“Deep Throat, Watergate, and the Bureaucratic Politics of the FBI”
Kevin P. Donnelly and David A. Rochefort
“The Lessons of 'Lesson Drawing': How the Obama Administration Attempted to Learn from Failure of the Clinton Health Plan”
Candice Bredbenner
“A Duty to Defend? The Evolution of Aliens’ Military Obligations to the United States, 1792 to 1946”
Stacie Taranto
“Ellen McCormack for President: Politics and an Improbable Path to Passing Anti-Abortion Policy”
Lisa Andersen
“From Unpopular to Excluded: Prohibitionists and the Ascendency of a Democratic-Republican System, 1888-1912”
Rachel Winslow
“Immigration Law and Improvised Policy in the Making of International Adoption, 1948-1961”