The question of how the American state defines its powernot what it is but what it "does"has become central to a range of historical discourses, from the foundi

For anyone who has looked at a map of the United States and wondered how Texas and Oklahoma got their Panhandles, or flown over the American heartland and marve

The question of how the American state defines its power has become central to a range of historical topics, from the founding of the Republic and the role of t

Linklater opens with America's greatest surveyor, Andrew Ellicott, measuring the contentious boundary between Pennsylvania and Virginia in the summer of 1784; a

On Monday, May 4th, 1970, members of the Ohio National Guard fired 61 rounds of bullets into the Kent State University students protesting about the invasion of