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Featuring essays by leading academics as well as new voices, this collection shows how liberals reoriented themselves after the 1960s, how they struggled for a more inclusive Democratic Party, and how they developed creative strategies, occasionally succeeding in advancing their own agenda despite the countervailing headwinds.

Schooling Citizens presents a collection of essays by distinguished historian of education Jonathan Zimmerman. The book argues that education can help save our democracy by embracing and not avoiding the differences in our classrooms, and above all by resisting every effort—by citizens, politicians, or educators—to restrict what we say or think.

The first relational study of twentieth-century U.S. guestworker programs from Mexico and the Caribbean, Contracting Freedom explores how 1940s debates over labor programs elided race and empire while further legitimating and extending U.S. domination abroad in the post-World War II era.

When royal commissioners came to enforce the demands of the newly restored King Charles II, many New Englanders chafed against what they saw as arbitrary rule. Adrian Chastain Weimer shows how, despite being under immense metropolitan pressure, they mobilized to defy the crown, forming a robust and longstanding constitutional culture.

Through the voices of tenants, organizers, artists, sex workers, mutual aid practitioners, and young people, You Can’t Evict a Movement explores how housing justice in New York’s Chinatown links to broader struggles for community safety, collective wellness, and the possibility of living otherwise.

In The Business of Education, Elizabeth Tandy Shermer shows that US colleges and universities have always had to hustle to limit expenses while aggressively competing for donations, business contracts, federal grants, state allocations, and students willing and able to pay tuition.

No Wood, No Kingdom explores the conflicting attempts to understand the problem of wood scarcity in early modern England and demonstrates how these ideas shaped land use, forestry, and the economic vision of England's earliest colonies.

The Engine of Free Expression shows that, over the course of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, copyright became a powerful tool and product of the growth of local, state, and national governments, establishing precedents that are with us in the present.