Clay Risen, author of The Bill of the Century, comments on the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act
…federal government during the New Deal. But Republicans feared the unchecked power of the Commerce Clause, and preferred to rely on the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment, which…
Zandria F. Robinson’s book about black Memphians offers rich insight into the post-civil-rights era
…critics rich fodder for their various ruminations. It takes a mighty sharp analytical lens and a perverse amount of intellectual stamina to parse the theoretical complexities of racial and gendered…
In her new novel, Jennifer Chiaverini examines the political rivalries in Civil War Washington
…of this novel occurs during the Civil War, and Chiaverini provides a great deal of factual information about the context of the conflict between the two protagonists. Kate Chase is…
