In The Rise of the States, noted urban historian Jon C. Teaford explores the development of state government in the United States from the end of the nineteenth
A noted historian explores the development of U.S. State governments from the end of the 19th century to the so-called renaissance of States in the 20th. It is
"Democrats enacted the major changes, but only with enormous reluctance and only under enormous pressure. And Republicans, with one exception, were not eager to
The history of public policy in postwar America tends to fixate on developments at the national level, overlooking the crucial work done by individual states in
American political history has been built around narratives of crisis, in which what “counts” are the moments when seemingly stable political orders collaps