There was a time when young people were the most passionate participants in American democracy. In the second half of the nineteenth century--as voter turnout r

Examines how and why American women voted since the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified in 1920.

During the middle of the nineteenth century, Americans voted in saloons in the most derelict sections of great cities, in hamlets swarming with Union soldiers,

In the quarter century since the Stonewall riots in New York City's Greenwich Village launched the national gay-rights movement in earnest, LGB voters have stea

A penetrating, character-filled history “in the manner of David McCullough” (WSJ), revealing the deep roots of our tormented present-day politics. Democracy