Political/Social Science

In 1887 the state of Kansas gave women the right to vote in municipal elections. But some men in the city of Argonia, Kansas didn’t think women should…

Born in Shor-Tyube, Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, in 1951, Dungan ethnographer and creative writer Ali Dzhon is widely regarded as the preeminent writer on the material and spiritual culture and…

Co-authors Steve Odland and Joe Minarik of the Committee for Economic Development lay out a clear plan for how business and policy leaders can generate prosperity for business…

Written by a successful businessman, father, and high school coach with nearly twenty years of experience playing and coaching football, “Tackling Dummies” provides both an objective and insiders look…

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan convinced many policymakers and scholars that the United States should pull back in international affairs and that restraint should guide grand strategy.

It’s an oft-told story of Native Americans: conquered by invading white Europeans, deprived of their land and forced to live on scattered reservation ghettos, reduced to lives of poverty…

Through an exploration of film, drama, fiction, performance art, graphic novels, and philosophical discourse, this volume considers how artists grapple with questions of representation, as they ask whether…

From the visionary bestselling author of The Second World and How to Run the World comes a bracing and authoritative guide to a future shaped less by national…

As seen on MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews: “Generations of schoolchildren will memorize these rubies of wisdom from ‘President Donald J. Trump.’ This little red book captures history…

In this ethnography of addicted, pregnant, and poor women living in daily-rent hotels in San Francisco, Kelly Ray Knight examines the myriad struggles these women face, as well…