Unparalleled coverage of U.S. political development through a
unique chronological framework Encyclopedia of U.S. Political
History explores the events, policies, activities, institutions,
groups, people, and movements that have created and shaped
political life in the United States. With contributions from
scholars in the fields of history and political science, this
seven-volume set provides students, researchers, and scholars the
opportunity to examine the political evolution of the United States
from the 1500s to the present day. With greater coverage than any
other resource, the Encyclopedia of U.S. Political History
identifies and illuminates patterns and interrelations that will
expand the reader's understanding of American political
institutions, culture, behavior, and change. Focusing on both
government and history, the Encyclopedia brings exceptional breadth
and depth to the topic with more than 100 essays for each of the
critical time periods covered. With each volume covering one of
seven time periods that correspond to key eras in American history,
the essays and articles in this authoritative encyclopedia focus on
the following themes of political history: The three branches of
government Elections and political parties Legal and constitutional
histories Political movements and philosophies, and key political
figures Economics Military politics International relations,
treaties, and alliances Regional histories Key Features Organized
chronologically by political eras Reader's guide for easy-topic
searching across volumes Maps, photographs, and tables enhance the
text Signed entries by a stellar group of contributors VOLUME 1
?Colonial Beginnings through Revolution ?1500-1783 ?Volume Editor:
Andrew Robertson, Herbert H. Lehman College ?The colonial period
witnessed the transformation of thirteen distinct colonies into an
independent federated republic. This volume discusses the diversity
of the colonial political experience-a diversity that modern
scholars have found defies easy synthesis-as well as the long-term
conflicts, policies, and events that led to revolution, and the
ideas underlying independence. VOLUME 2 ?The Early Republic
?1784-1840 ?Volume Editor: Michael A. Morrison, Purdue University
No period in the history of the United States was more critical to
the foundation and shaping of American politics than the early
American republic. This volume discusses the era of Confederation,
the shaping of the U.S. Constitution, and the development of the
party system. VOLUME 3 ?Expansion, Division, and Reconstruction
?1841-1877 ?Volume Editor: William Shade, Lehigh University
(emeritus) ?This volume examines three decades in the middle of the
nineteenth century, which witnessed: the emergence of the debate
over slavery in the territories, which eventually led to the Civil
War; the military conflict itself from 1861 until 1865; and the
process of Reconstruction, which ended with the readmission of all
of the former Confederate States to the Union and the "withdrawal"
of the last occupying federal troops from those states in 1877.
VOLUME 4 ?From the Gilded Age through the Age of Reform ?1878-1920
?Volume Editor: Robert Johnston, University of Illinois at Chicago
With the withdrawal of federal soldiers from Southern states the
previous year, 1878 marked a new focus in American politics, and it
became recognizably modern within the next 40 years. This volume
focuses on race and politics; economics, labor, and capitalism;
agrarian politics and populism; national politics; progressivism;
foreign affairs; World War I; and the end of the progressive era.
VOLUME 5 ?Prosperity, Depression, and War ?1921-1945 ?Volume
Editor: Robert Zieger, University of Florida Between 1921 and 1945,
the U.S. political system exhibited significant patterns of both
continuity and change in a turbulent time marked by racist
conflicts, the Great Depression, and World War II. The main topics
covered in this volume are declining party identification; the
"Roosevelt Coalition"; evolving party organization; congressional
inertia in the 1920s; the New Deal; Congress during World War II;
the growth of the federal government; Franklin D. Roosevelt's
presidency; the Supreme Court's conservative traditions; and a new
judicial outlook. VOLUME 6 ?Postwar Consensus to Social Unrest
?1946-1975 ?Volume Editor: Thomas Langston, Tulane University This
volume examines the postwar era with the consolidation of the New
Deal, the onset of the Cold War, and the Korean War. It then moves
into the 1950s and early 1960s, and discusses the Vietnam war; the
era of John F. Kennedy; the Cuban Missile Crisis; the Civil Rights
Act; Martin Luther King and the Voting Rights Act; antiwar
movements; The War Powers Act; environmental policy; the Equal
Rights Amendment; Roe v. Wade; Watergate; and the end of the
Vietnam War. VOLUME 7 ?The Clash of Conservatism and Liberalism
?1976 to present ?Volume Editor: Richard Valelly, Swarthmore
College ?The troubled Carter Administration, 1977-1980, proved to
be the political gateway for the resurgence of a more ideologically
conservative Republican party led by a popular president, Ronald
Reagan. The last volume of the Encyclopedia covers politics and
national institutions in a polarized era of nationally competitive
party politics and programmatic debates about taxes, social policy,
and the size of national government. It also considers the mixed
blessing of the change in superpower international competition
associated with the end of the Cold War. Stateless terrorism
(symbolized by the 9/11 attacks), the continuing American tradition
of civil liberties, and the broad change in social diversity
wrought by immigration and the impact in this period of the rights
revolutions are also covered.
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