The meanings and practices of American citizenship were as contested during the Civil War era as they are today. By examining a variety of perspectives—from p

In a series of fascinating essays that explore topics in American politics from the nation's founding to the present day , The Democratic Experiment opens up ex

"This book is about citizenship, or membership in a political community, and Lincoln's evolving understanding of who belonged and who didn't belong in that comm

The meanings and practices of American citizenship were as contested during the Civil War era as they are today. By examining a variety of perspectives—from p

This is the story of how Americans attempted to define what it meant to be a citizen of the United States, at a moment of fracture in the republic's history. As