Too often, Wallace Hettle points out, studies of politics in the nineteenth-century South reinforce a view of the Democratic Party that is frozen in time on the

Making of a Southern Democracy: North Carolina Politics from Kerr Scott to Pat McCrory

While popular movements in South Korea rightly grab the headlines for forcing political change and holding leaders to account, those movements are only part of

While the North prevailed in the Civil War, ending slavery and giving the country a "new birth of freedom," Heather Cox Richardson argues in this provocative wo

Within a few short years after emancipation, freedpeople of the Natchez District created a new democracy in the Reconstruction era, replacing the oligarchic rul