Stephen J. Rockwell analyzes the role of national administration in Indian affairs and other national policy areas related to westward expansion in the nineteen

A basic feature of the modern US administrative state taken for granted by legal scholars but neglected by political scientists and historians is its strong jud

Challenges the myth that the American national state was weak in the early days of the republic and provides a new narrative of American expansionism.

At the close of the Civil War, it was clear that the military conflict that began in South Carolina and was fought largely east of the Mississippi River had cha

Although many associate Franklin D. Roosevelt with the inauguration of the robust, dominant American presidency, the roots of his executive leadership style go