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Democratic Struggles, Summer, 2019 (34:4)  {pub}Login to Download PDF {/pub}{reg}Download PDF{/reg}

• The Arab Spring and the Challenge of Nation-Building
• Purged From the Voter Rolls: Husted v. A. Philip Randolph Institute
• Suppressing the Vote

Beneath the Surface, Spring 2019 (34:3) {pub}Login to Download PDF {/pub}{reg}Download PDF{/reg}

• Ida Tarbell and the Muckrakers
• The Anglo-Zulu War and British Imperialism
• Will the Mueller Probe End With a Constitutional Crisis?

Law and Protection, Winter 2019 (34:2) {pub}Login to Download PDF {/pub}{reg}Download PDF {/reg}

• Journalism Under Siege
• The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850
• Islamic Science in the Middle Ages

Science Matters, Fall 2018 (34:1) {pub}Login to Download PDF {/pub}{reg}Download PDF {/reg}

• Who Was Hypatia of Alexandria?
• Cotton Mather and Boston’s Smallpox Inoculation Fight
• Global Warming and the Paris Agreement

Uncertain Times, Summer 2018 (33:4) {pub}Login to Download PDF {/pub}{reg}Download PDF {/reg}

• Guns and School Safety: What Is the Best Way Forward?
• Automation and the American Worker
• The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Facing Challenges, Spring 2018 (33:3) {pub}Login to Download PDF {/pub}{reg}Download PDF {/reg}

• Ida B. Wells and Her Crusade for Racial Justice
• The Revolutions of 1848
• The Iran Nuclear Deal and Its Critics

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Flashpoints, Winter 2018  (33:2) Download PDF

• What Should the U.S. Do About North Korea’s Nuclear Weapons?
• The Great Sioux War: Land, Gold, and a Broken Treaty
• The Dispute Over the South China Sea

Democracy in the Balance, Fall 2017  (33:1) {pub}Login to Download PDF {/pub}{reg}Download PDF {/reg}

• How Democratic Was Athens?
• The Northwest Ordinance and Westward Expansion
• Is Democracy in Trouble? 

• Religion, Political Power, and the Thirty Years’ War
• The Second Great Awakening and Reform in the 19th Century
• Prayer at Government Meetings and the First Amendment

• Police Body Cameras and the Use of Force
• Abolitionists and the Constitution
• Tolerance: Voltaire and the Spirit of the Enlightenment

Breaking New Grounds, Fall 2015 (31:1) {pub}Login to Download PDF {/pub}{reg}Download PDF{/reg}

• James Madison and the Bill of Rights
• Hatshepsut: How a Woman Took the Throne

The 1960s, Summer 2015 (30:4) {pub}Login to Download PDF {/pub}{reg}Download PDF{/reg}

• The Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the U.S. Supreme Court
• Cuba at the Crossroad
• Mao Zedong and the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution

The Law, Spring 2015 (30:3) {pub}Login to Download PDF {/pub}{reg}Download PDF{/reg}

• Saved From the Gallows — The Trial of Leopold and Loeb
• The Great Qing Code: Law and Order During China’s Last Dynasty
• The Free Exercise of Religion in America

Leadership, Winter 2014 (30:2) {pub}Login to Download PDF {/pub}{reg} Download PDF{/reg}

• 'Go Boldly!': Joan of Arc and the Hundred Years War
• Sam Houston: A Study in Leadership
• Margaret Thatcher and Conservative Politics in England

War & Policy, Fall 2014 (30:1) {pub}Login to Download PDF {/pub}{reg} Download PDF{/reg}

• A Fire Waiting to be Lit: The Origins of World War I (Click here for the enhanced version of this article.)
• The War of 1812: America's First Declared War
• The War in Afghanistan: What Should America’s Policy Be?

War and the Military, Summer 2014 (29:4) {pub}Login to Download PDF {/pub}{reg}Download PDF{/reg}

• The Chinese Civil War: Why Did the Communists Win?
• The Cold War: How Did It Start? How Did It End?
• Women in the Military

Conflicts, Spring 2014 (29:3) {pub}Login to Download PDF {/pub}{reg}Download PDF{/reg}

• The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
• Sudan, Imperialism, and the Mahdi’s Holy War
• Are Bible Readings Ever Allowed in Public Schools?

Making a Difference, Winter 2014 (29:2) {pub}Login to Download PDF {/pub}{reg}Download PDF{/reg}

• Queen Elizabeth I: Religion and the State
• Harriet Tubman and the End of Slavery
• Affirmative Action in American Colleges After Fisher v. Texas

The Governance, Fall 2013 (29:1) {pub}Login to Download PDF {/pub}{reg}Download PDF{/reg}

• Puritan Massachusetts: Theocracy or Democracy?
• Who Was the Real Cleopatra?
• How the First State Constitutions Helped Build the U.S. Constitution

The Environment, Summer 2013 (28:4) {pub}Login to Download PDF {/pub}{reg}Download PDF{/reg}

• Conservation, Preservation, and the National Parks
• Rachel Carson and the Modern Environmental Movement

Industrialization and Labor, Spring 2013 (28:3) {pub}Login to Download PDF {/pub}{reg}Download PDF{/reg}

• The Industrial Revolution
• The Pullman Strike and Boycott
• American Labor Unions: Yesterday and Today

Origins, Winter 2012 (28:2) {pub}Login to Download PDF {/pub}{reg}Download PDF{/reg}

• Hamilton, Jefferson, and Their Fight for the Future of America
• World History: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire
• Current Issue: The Electoral College

Health-Care Reform, Fall 2012 (28:1) {pub}Login to Download PDF{/pub}{reg}Download PDF{/reg}

• The Continuing Struggle for U.S. Health-Care Reform
• The U.S. Supreme Court’s Decision on the Affordable Care Act
• Health Care: What Do Other Countries Do?
  

Facing Crisis, Summer 2012 (27:4){pub}Login to Download PDF{/pub}{reg}Download PDF{/reg}

• FDR and the Banks
• Munich and “Appeasement”
• Unemployment and the Future of Jobs in America

A New Order, Spring 2012 (27:3) {pub}Login to Download PDF{/pub}{reg}Download PDF{/reg}

• Simon Bolivar: Thinker, Liberator, Reformer
• J.P. Morgan, the Panic of 1907, and the Federal Reserve Act
• Juan Peron: Dictator or Champion of Social Justice?

Law, Winter 2011 (27:2) {pub} Login to Download PDF {/pub}{reg}Download PDF{/reg}

• Canon Law: Medieval Europe’s Legal System
• Oliver Cromwell: The Lord Protector
• Calhoun and Webster: Two Visions of the Federal Union

Revolutionary Thinkers, Fall 2011 (27:1) {pub} Login to Download PDF {/pub}{reg}Download PDF{/reg}

• Thomas Paine: America’s Most Radical Revolutionary
• Sir William Blackstone and the Common Law
• St. Augustine and the Role of Religion in the State

Communism, Summer 2011 (26:4) {pub} Login to Download PDF {/pub}{reg}Download PDF{/reg}

• Lenin and the Russian Revolution
• The Cuban Missile Crisis
• North Korea: The Rogue Nation

Economic Crises, Spring 2011 (26:3) {pub}Login to Download PDF{/pub}{reg}Download PDF{/reg}

• The WPA: Putting the Nation to Work in the Great Depression
• A Guide to the Federal Budget Deficit and National Debt
• Tulipmania and Economic Bubbles

Population Perils Winter 2010 (26:2) {pub}Login to Download PDF{/pub}{reg}Download PDF{/reg}

• The "Black Death": A Catastrophe in Medieval Europe
• The Potato Famine and Irish Immigration to America
• The Debate OverWorld Population: Was Malthus Right?

Tyranny Fall 2010 (26:1) {pub}Login to Download PDF{/pub}{reg}Download PDF{/reg}

• The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom
• Plato and Aristotle on Tyranny
• Nigeria: After 50 Years, Still Struggling to Be a Democracy

Reaction and Reform Summer 2010 (25:4)  {pub}Login to Download PDF{/pub}{reg}Download PDF{/reg}

• The Watergate Scandal
• Mussolini and the Rise of Fascism
• Land, Liberty, and the Mexican Revolution 

Revolution and Change Spring 2010 (25:3) {pub}Login to Download PDF{/pub}{reg}Download PDF{/reg}

• England's Glorious Revolution
• John Maynard Keynes and the Revolution in Economic Thought
• William Jennings Bryan, the "Great Commoner" 

Building Democracy Fall 2009 (25:2) {pub}Login to Download PDF{/pub}{reg}Download PDF{/reg}  

• The Major Debates at the Constitutional Convention
• King and Parliament in Medieval England
• Every New Generation

Environmental Issues Summer 2009 (25:1) {pub}Login to Download PDF{/pub}{reg}Download PDF{/reg}

• Are We Headed for a "Sixth Mass Extinction"?
• The Columbian Exchange
• What Caused Egypt's Old Kingdom to Collapse? 

Reform and Change Spring 2009 (24:4) {pub}Login to Download PDF{/pub}{reg}Download PDF{/reg}

• The Teapot Dome Scandal
• Woodrow Wilson's Quest to Change the World
• John Stuart Mill and Individual Liberty

Communication of Ideas Winter 2009 (24:3) {pub}Login to Download PDF{/pub}{reg}Download PDF{/reg}  

• Herodotus and Thucydides: Inventing History
• Gutenberg and the Printing Revolution in Europe
• Henry Clay: Compromise and Union

Politics Fall 2008 (24:2) {pub}Login to Download PDF{/pub}{reg}Download PDF{/reg} 

• How Political Parties Began
• Making It Easier to Vote vs. Guarding Against Election Fraud
• The Development of Confucianism in Ancient China

Reform Spring 2008 (24:1) {pub}Login to Download PDF{/pub}{reg}Download PDF{/reg} 

• Communism, Capitalism, and Democracy in China
• Upton Sinclair's The Jungle
• John Dewey and the Reconstruction of American Democracy

Intellectual Property Winter 2008 (23:4) {pub}Login to Download PDF{/pub}{reg}Download PDF{/reg} 

• The Origins of Patent and Copyrights Law
• Digital Piracy
• Patenting Life
• The Cheating Problem

Justice Fall 2007 (23:3) {pub}Login to Download PDF{/pub}{reg}Download PDF{/reg} 

• The Whiskey Rebellion and the New American Republic
• Cicero: Defender of the Roman Republic
• "Justice and Fairness": John Rawls and His Theory of Justice

Rights Reconsidered Summer 2007 (23:2) {pub}Login to Download PDF{/pub}{reg}Download PDF{/reg}

• Sacco and Vanzetti
• Edmund Burke
• Mendez v. Westminster

Free Markets and Antitrust Law Spring 2007 (23:1) {pub}Login to Download PDF{/pub}{reg}Download PDF{/reg} 

• Adam Smith and The Wealth of Nations
• Progressives and the Era of Trustbusting
• Media Mergers and the Public Interest

Making a Just Society Winter 2006 (22:4) {pub}Login to Download PDF{/pub}{reg}Download PDF{/reg}

• Stem-Cell Research: The Promise and the Pitfalls
• Slavery, Civil War, and Democracy: What Did Lincoln Believe?
• St. Thomas Aquinas, Natural Law, and the Common Good.

The Rule of Law in Dangerous Times Fall 2006 (22:3) {pub}Login to Download PDF{/pub}{reg}Download PDF{/reg}

• Solon Put Athens on the Road to Democracy
• John Peter Zenger and the Freedom of the Press
• The National Security Agency's Warrantless Wiretaps. 

The Establishment of Religion Spring 2006 (22:2) {pub}Login to Download PDF{/pub}{reg}Download PDF{/reg}

• The Scopes Trial
• More Monkey Trials
• Turkey: An Evolving Democracy in the Middle East

Standards for the Time Winter 2005 (22:1) {pub}Login to Download PDF{/pub}{reg}Download PDF{/reg}

• The Transcendentalists in Action
• Petrarch, the Father of Humanism
• Is Torture Ever Justified?

Centralized vs. Decentralized Rule Fall 2005 (21:4) {pub}Login to Download PDF{/pub}{reg}Download PDF{/reg}

• The Legacy of Alexander the Great
• The Articles of Confederation
• The European Union: Toward a "United States of Europe"?

Economics and Democracy Summer 2005 (21:3) {pub}Login to Download PDF{/pub}{reg}Download PDF{/reg} 

• Dust Bowl Exodus
• The German Weimar Republic
• Outsourcing Jobs to Other Countries

American Interventions Spring 2005 (21:2) {pub}Login to Download PDF{/pub}{reg}Download PDF{/reg} 

• Is Iraq on the Way to Democracy?
• Teddy Roosevelt and the Panama Canal
• The Boxer Rebellion in China

Executive Power Winter 2004 (21:1) {pub}Login to Download PDF{/pub}{reg}Download PDF{/reg}

• Machiavelli and The Prince 
• Detaining U.S. Citizens as Enemy Combatants
• Jackson and Indian Removal

Religion and Society Fall 2004 (20:4) {pub}Login to Download PDF{/pub}{reg}Download PDF{/reg} 

• Jonathan Edwards and the Great Awakening in Colonial America
• Islam Divided: The Shiites and Sunnis
• Should We Take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?

Nation-Building Summer 2004 (20:3) {pub}Login to Download PDF{/pub}{reg}Download PDF{/reg} 

• The Marshall Plan for Rebuilding Europe
• Different Visions for Vietnam
• U.S. Involvement in Nation-Building Before Iraq

Developments in Democracy Spring 2004 (20:2) {pub}Login to Download PDF{/pub}{reg}Download PDF{/reg}

• How Women Won the Right to Vote
• Have Women Achieved Equality?
• Hobbes, Locke, Montesquieu, and Rousseau on Government

Culture in Conflict Winter 2004 (20:1) {pub}Login to Download PDF{/pub}{reg}Download PDF{/reg}

• President Polk and the Taking of the West
• Muslim Conquests in Europe
• The Rise of Islamist Terrorist Groups

National Security and Freedom Fall 2003 (19:4) {pub}Login to Download PDF{/pub}{reg}Download PDF{/reg} 

• The Patriot Act: What is the Proper Balance Between National Security and Individual Rights?
• The Alien and Sedition Acts: Defining American Freedom
• Plato and The Republic

Controversies Summer 2003 (19:3) {pub}Login to Download PDF{/pub}{reg}Download PDF{/reg} 

• Three Visions for African Americans
• "Forgotten Genocide": The Destruction of the Armenians During World War I
• The Bush Doctrine 

Ideas Spring 2003 (19:2)  {pub}Login to Download PDF{/pub}{reg}Download PDF{/reg}

• Karl Marx: A Failed Vision of History
• Social Darwinism and American Laissez-faire Capitalism
• Copying Music and Movies from the Internet: "Digital Piracy" and "Fair Use"

Eastern Europe Winter 2002 (19:1)

• Life Under Communism in Eastern Europe
• Emerging Democracies in Eastern Europe and Russia: How Are They Doing?
• Ethnic Minorities in Eastern Europe

 The Environment Fall 2002 (18:4)

• Environmental Disasters in the Cradles of Civilization
• Global Warming: What Should We Do About It?
• Climate Change and Violence in the Ancient American Southwest

Victims of War Summer 2002 (18:3)

• Wartime and the Bill of Rights: The Korematsu Case
• The "Rape of Nanking"
• Compensating the Victims of War

Imperialism Spring 2002 (18:2)

• The Great Rebellion of 1857 in India
• Oil and National Security
• The Debate Over Hawaii and an American Overseas Empire

• The United States and the Barbary Pirates
• AIDS in Africa
• Ibn Battuta: The Greatest Traveler in the Middle Ages

• Clash of Empires: The Fight for North America
• When Roman Law Ruled the Western World
• Puerto Rico: Commonwealth, Statehood, or Independence?

Military Authority Summer 2001 (17:3)

Labor Spring 2001 (17:2)

Religious Tolerance Winter 2000 (17:1)

Innovations in Law Fall 2000 (16:4)

Civil Disobedience Summer 2000 (16:3)

Wealth and Power Spring 2000 (16:2)

Matters of Principle Winter 1999 (16:1)

Clash of Cultures and Law Fall 1999 (15:4)

Rules of War Summer 1999 (15:3)

Codes  Spring 1999 (15:2)

Islamic Issues Winter 1998 (15:1)

• The Inquisition: Looking Into the Human Soul
• "We Came to Free the Slaves": John Brown on Trial
• Does the Criminal Justice System Discriminate Against African-Americans?

• The Election of 1824-25: When the House Chose the President
• Democracy and Dictatorship in Ancient Rome
• Why Don't People Vote?

• Educating European Immigrant Children Before World War I
• The Debate Over School Choice
• Teaching to the Test in Japan

Trends and Issues of the Bill of Rights Fall/Winter 1991 (8:1)

• The New Supreme Court: Decisions to Come
• Who Voted in Early America
• On The Road to Revolution with Boris Yeltsin
• The Tax Farmer of Mari

The 14th Amendment Spring 1991 (7:4)

• The Stalin Purges and "Show Trials"
• The 14th Amendment and the "Second Bill of Rights"
• Education and the 14th Amendment