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Abortion policy in the United States has been contentious for decades and continues to polarize the American electorate. The controversy

This 1919 Supreme Court case from the World War I era involved Russian-born anarchists convicted under the 1918 Sedition Act

(1759–1826) served as a continental congressman, diplomat, vice president (1789–1797), and president

(1767–1848), sixth president of the United States. Born in Quincy, Massachusetts, the son of John Adams and Abigail

During the early twentieth century, Progressives sought to ameliorate the consequences of industrialization by enacting minimum wage laws. Conservatives and

The term “administrative state” entered the political science literature in Dwight Waldo’s influential book of the same name in 1948

This entry contains two subentries: Legal Aspects; and Politics of Affirmative Action.

In 1967 the mayoral victories of two African Americans, Carl Stokes in Cleveland, Ohio, and Richard Hatcher in

The election of Barack Obama as president of the United States in 2008 was the culmination of an African American

(1918–1996) was the thirty-ninth vice president of the United States, from 1969 to 1973.

In 1933, American agriculture neared collapse as farm bankruptcies and foreclosures multiplied and agricultural prices fell below the cost

The American system of agriculture is a product of public policies that have sought to develop, protect, and regulate the

Representatives of seven American colonies meeting in Albany, New York, in the summer of 1754 drew up a

The 1969 occupation of Alcatraz Island grew out of the civil unrest sweeping across the United States in the 1960

The term “Alien and Sedition Acts” refers to four controversial laws enacted by the Federalist-controlled Congress in 1798 in response

When Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, thereby unleashing World War II, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt sought to aid

The American Anti-Slavery Society (AASS) was founded in 1833 by a small group of radicals calling for the immediate abolition

A nonprofit membership association devoted to the defense of individual rights under the U.S. Constitution founded in 1920 as a