Violence in Central America has reached crisis levels. Throughout Central America, Mexican drug trafficking organization, local drug traffickers, t...

Sadly, the threat of violent extremism in America is nothing new. Throughout our history, misguided groups, including international and domestic te...

Virtual currencies are financial innovations that pose emerging challenges to federal financial regulatory and law enforcement agencies in carrying...

A powerful way to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, this book reminds us of its impact and each of its...

This volume is the first to explore U.S. visor hats of the 1930s-1950s in detail. Fully illustrated in superb full-color photographs, the variety o...

Inaugurating the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, leaders from 20 cultures of North, Central, and South America, the Pacific...

The authority to regulate U.S. elections is shared by federal, state, and local officials. Congress has addressed major functional areas in the vot...

One of the hallmarks of American democracy is the right to vote. In fact, the freedom to vote is so ingrained in American culture that it is taken ...

One of the hallmarks of American democracy is the right to vote. In fact, the freedom to vote is so ingrained in American culture that it is taken ...

This book focuses on voting practices, election reform and local election officials who are critical to the administration of federal elections and...

This book provides details about new and exciting ways of administering elections so that each jurisdiction can chart the future of its own system ...

Millions turn out to vote in U.S. general elections, and there were reports of long wait times at some polling places on Election Day in 2012. The ...

The United States runs its elections unlike any other country in the world. Responsibility for elections is entrusted to local officials in approxi...

By passing the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Congress challenged the widespread evidence of disfranchisement of black citizens in certain southern sta...

By passing the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Congress challenged the widespread evidence of disfranchisement of black citizens in certain southern sta...

The Voting Rights Act was necessary because of this country's long and painful history of not extending the right to vote to all. The Voting Rights...

At various times in U.S. history, the right to vote has been granted or denied on the basis of such criteria as wealth, gender, ethnicity, and race...

In American Samoa, the first minimum wage increase raised the wages of about three-quarters of workers at private sector employers. By 2016, the mi...

From the American Revolution to the Bush administration's 'war on terrorism' and the invasion of Iraq, this volume examines how, and under what cir...

Edwin Cole Bearss, born in 1923, is an American World War II wounded warrior of the Greatest Generation. As a U.S. Marine, he was shot four times b...

This second book of the Edwin Cole Bearss memoir begins with his first days in a 40-year career in the National Park Service. Beginning as the Park...

Edwin Bearss' Government career created National Parks and Presidential Historic Parks, including his direct relationships with President Lyndon B....

This timely book offers a fresh perspective on the issue of contemporary migratory labor, otkhodnichestvo, in Russia-the temporary departure of inh...

This book, sharing its title with a curious and entertaining travel book written by Australian-born writer John Lang, is a collection of essays abo...