The US government spends hundreds of millions of dollars every year to promote and facilitate contraception. Whereas other wealthy countries support broader fertility interventions under
July 4, 2026, will mark the semiquincentennial—or 250th anniversary of the founding—of the United States. It is a time of celebration, but also, nationally and
Few time periods have been as defined by waves of monumental social change as the United States during the 1960s. Even today, almost sixty years
In Company Towns, Elizabeth Mitchell Elder examines the long-lasting political legacies of mining-company dominance in the Midwest and Appalachia. While the economic consequences of deindustrialization
Faith in the resilience and adaptability of the US Constitution rests on a long history of finding new ways to make the system work. In
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Since the 1960s, American liberalism and the Democratic Party have been remade along professional class lines, widening liberalism’s impact but narrowing its social and political
The Journals Division of the University of Chicago Press publishes more than 90 journals covering subjects from the humanities to the life sciences and historical
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