
Abortion Politics and Policy Reference library
Daniel K. Williams
The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Political and Legal History
Abortion policy in the United States has been contentious for decades and continues to polarize the American electorate. The controversy

Abrams v. United States Reference library
Norman L. Rosenberg
The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Political and Legal History
This 1919 Supreme Court case from the World War I era involved Russian-born anarchists convicted under the 1918 Sedition Act

Adams, John Reference library
Stuart Leibiger
The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Political and Legal History
(1759–1826) served as a continental congressman, diplomat, vice president (1789–1797), and president

Adams, John Quincy Reference library
Leonard L. Richards
The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Political and Legal History
(1767–1848), sixth president of the United States. Born in Quincy, Massachusetts, the son of John Adams and Abigail

Adkins v. Children’s Hospital Reference library
James W. Ely Jr.
The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Political and Legal History
During the early twentieth century, Progressives sought to ameliorate the consequences of industrialization by enacting minimum wage laws. Conservatives and

Administrative State Reference library
Williamjames Hull Hoffer
The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Political and Legal History
The term “administrative state” entered the political science literature in Dwight Waldo’s influential book of the same name in 1948

Affirmative Action Reference library
Anders Walker, Matthew Dallek, and Paul S. Boyer
The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Political and Legal History
This entry contains two subentries: Legal Aspects; and Politics of Affirmative Action.

African American Mayors since 1960 Reference library
Roger Biles
The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Political and Legal History
In 1967 the mayoral victories of two African Americans, Carl Stokes in Cleveland, Ohio, and Richard Hatcher in

African Americans in Politics Reference library
Cary D. Wintz
The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Political and Legal History
The election of Barack Obama as president of the United States in 2008 was the culmination of an African American

Agnew, Spiro Reference library
Robert Mason
The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Political and Legal History
(1918–1996) was the thirty-ninth vice president of the United States, from 1969 to 1973.

Agricultural Adjustment Administration Reference library
David E. Conrad
The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Political and Legal History
In 1933, American agriculture neared collapse as farm bankruptcies and foreclosures multiplied and agricultural prices fell below the cost

Agricultural Policy Reference library
David E. Hamilton
The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Political and Legal History
The American system of agriculture is a product of public policies that have sought to develop, protect, and regulate the

Albany Congress Reference library
Alison G. Olson
The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Political and Legal History
Representatives of seven American colonies meeting in Albany, New York, in the summer of 1754 drew up a

Alcatraz, Occupation of Reference library
Troy Johnson
The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Political and Legal History
The 1969 occupation of Alcatraz Island grew out of the civil unrest sweeping across the United States in the 1960

Alien and Sedition Acts Reference library
Norman L. Rosenberg
The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Political and Legal History
The term “Alien and Sedition Acts” refers to four controversial laws enacted by the Federalist-controlled Congress in 1798 in response

America First Committee Reference library
Justus D. Doenecke
The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Political and Legal History
When Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, thereby unleashing World War II, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt sought to aid

American Anti-Slavery Society Reference library
Carol Faulkner
The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Political and Legal History
The American Anti-Slavery Society (AASS) was founded in 1833 by a small group of radicals calling for the immediate abolition

American Civil Liberties Union Reference library
Samuel Walker and Boyer Paul S.
The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Political and Legal History
A nonprofit membership association devoted to the defense of individual rights under the U.S. Constitution founded in 1920 as a