Civics and citizenship

Public division is not new; in fact, it is the lifeblood of politics, and political representatives have constructed divisions throughout history to mobilize constituencies.

By the end of the 1920s, just ten years after the Jones Act first made them full-fledged Americans, more than 45,000 native Puerto Ricans had left their homes and entered the United States, citizenship papers in hand, forming one of New York City's most complex and distinctive migrant communities.

When we think of Catholicism, we think of Europe and the United States as the seats of its power.

The Puritans of popular memory are dour figures, characterized by humorless toil at best and witch trials at worst.

Americans have long acknowledged a deep connection between evangelical religion and democracy in the early days of the republic.

Citizenship is much more than the right to vote.

The 2016 presidential election campaign and its aftermath have underscored worrisome trends in the present state of our democracy: the extreme polarization of the electorate, the dismissal of people with opposing views, and the widespread acceptance and circulation of one-sided and factually erroneous information.

In a remarkably short period of time, the realization of religious freedom has achieved broad consensus as an indispensable condition for peace.

A century after his presidency, Woodrow Wilson remains one of the most compelling and complicated figures ever to occupy the Oval Office.

In the spring of 1915, Chicagoans elected the city's first black alderman, Oscar De Priest.

The term "e;community organizer"e; was deployed repeatedly against Barack Obama during the 2008 presidential campaign as a way to paint him as an inexperienced politician unfit for the presidency.

Explores the Civil War's related and enduring conflicts of ideas and principles through four centuries of a nation's history.

David Brooks called Making Patriots "e;wise and penetrating,"e; and in an era of polarization and anger, its bracing call for love of country is more important than ever Although Samuel Johnson once remarked that "e;patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels,"e; over the course of the history of the United States we have seen our share of heroes: patriots who have willingly put their lives at risk for this country and, especially, its principles.

In the months after the end of the Civil War, there was one word on everyone's lips: redemption.

Freedom in the World, the Freedom House flagship survey whose findings have been published annually since 1972, is the standard-setting comparative assessment of global political rights and civil liberties.

The interconnected ways that sexism functions in academic Islamic studies and how to shift professional norms toward parityDespite remarkable shifts in the demographics of Islamic studies in recent decades, the field continues to be dominated by men, who often relegate other scholars and their workparticularly research on genderto its periphery, while treating subfields in which men predominate as more rigorous and central.

Homeland security is rarely just a matter of the homeland; it involves the circulation and multiplication of policing practices across borders.

Over the past few decades, we have witnessed the growth of movements using digital means to connect with broader interest groups and express their points of view.

We speak of being 'free' to speak our minds, free to go to college, free to move about; we can be cancer-free, debt-free, worry-free, or free from doubt.

The steady immigration of black populations from Africa and the Caribbean over the past few decades has fundamentally changed the racial, ethnic, and political landscape in the United States.

The United Nations Peacebuilding Commission (UNPBC) was established in December 2005 to develop outlines of best practice in post-conflict reconstruction, and to secure the political and material resources necessary to assist states in transition from conflict to peacetime.

In Liberal Rights and Responsibilities, Christopher Heath Wellman offers original theories of political legitimacy and our obligation to obey the law, and then, building upon these accounts, defends a number of distinctive positions concerning the rights and responsibilities individual citizens, separatist groups, and political states have regarding one another.

Race and Real Estate brings together new work by architects, sociologists, legal scholars, and literary critics that qualifies and complicates traditional narratives of race, property, and citizenship in the United States.

Race and Real Estate brings together new work by architects, sociologists, legal scholars, and literary critics that qualifies and complicates traditional narratives of race, property, and citizenship in the United States.

Living in Infamy examines the history of disfranchisement for criminal conviction in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Living in Infamy examines the history of disfranchisement for criminal conviction in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

In 1964 Malcolm X was invited to debate at the Oxford Union Society at Oxford University.

In 1964 Malcolm X was invited to debate at the Oxford Union Society at Oxford University.

Placed within the context of the past decade's war on terror and emergent Latino migrant movement, Reform without Justice addresses the issue of state violence against migrants in the United States.

Malcolm X's cultural rebirth--his improbable second coming--brims with irony.

Alice Paul redirected the course of American political history.

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While much has been written about the Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Named the American Political Science Association's Best Book on Race, Ethnicity, and Politics for 2014When we think of minorities--linguistic, ethnic, religious, regional, or racial--in world politics, conflict is often the first thing that comes to mind.

Since its founding in 1910--the same year as another national organization devoted to the economic and social welfare aspects of race advancement, the National Urban League--the NAACP has been viewed as the vanguard national civil rights organization in American history.

Most people believe that the right to privacy is inherently at odds with the right to free speech.

The role of the Constitution in American political history is contentious not simply because of battles over meaning.

Chronic unemployment, deindustrialized cities, and mass incarceration are among the grievous social problems that will not yield unless American citizens address them.

For many Americans, the election of Barack Obama as the country's first black president signaled that we had become a post-racial nation - some even suggested that race was no longer worth discussing.

In August, 1933, dozens of people gathered amid seven large, canvas tents in a field near Amenia, in upstate New York.

In the last seventy years of its long and distinguished existence, the Habsburg monarchy was plagued by the forces of rising nationalism.

The global humanitarian movement, which originated within Western religious organizations in the early nineteenth century, has been of most important forces in world politics in advancing both human rights and human welfare.

In August, 1933, dozens of people gathered amid seven large, canvas tents in a field near Amenia, in upstate New York.

It is well known that World War II gave rise to human rights rhetoric, discredited a racist regime abroad, and provided new opportunities for African Americans to fight, work, and demand equality at home.

The relationship between religion and human rights is both complex and inextricable.

In Humanity's Law, renowned legal scholar Ruti Teitel offers a powerful account of one of the central transformations of the post-Cold War era: the profound normative shift in the international legal order from prioritizing state security to protecting human security.

Between the turn of the twentieth century and the Brown v.

The Tibetan Buddhist tradition has known over thirteen centuries of continuous development.

In the 1960s, on the heels of the Brown vs.

On Palm Sunday 1964, at the Second Presbyterian Church in Memphis, a group of black and white students began a "e;kneel-in"e; to protest the church's policy of segregation, a protest that would continue in one form or another for more than a year and eventually force the church to open its doors to black worshippers.