Donald Trump is the beneficiary if not the product of a certain culture of American conservatism, broadly...
Political Science
Political science examines how power is organized and contested within societies. Read about the ideas and institutions that shape government and public life.
Kleroterion: This device was used for the jury selection system in Athens. Bronze identification tickets were inserted...
The Acropolis of Athens. Dominating the acropolis is the Parthenon, built between 447 and 432 BCE in the Age of Pericles, and...
Adolf Hitler and his entourage take a stroll in Paris on June 23, 1940 / German Federal...
Pottery ostraka identifying Themistocles, 482 BCE. These were used in Athens to vote a particular citizen to be ostracised from the polis....
This great writer, great naturalist, and great advocate of self-reliant individualism was also one of the founding fathers...
Ostraka for Ostracism / Museum of the Ancient Agora, Wikimedia Commons Although the Greek city-states differed in...
Radical pamphleteer Thomas Paine advocated a republic: a state without a king. By Dr. P. Scott Corbett,...
1952 Democratic Convention / Wikimedia Commons People gain an understanding and acceptance of the political culture of...
Political parties thrive when they are able to manage the media and effectively promote their candidates, leaders,...
History tells us that midterm elections are bad — sometimes very bad — for the party that...
Starting in the 1600s, European philosophers began debating the question of who should govern a nation. Curated/Reviewed...
Pnyx hill in Athens by Qwqchris. / Wikimedia Commons In the matter of the dēmokratia (‘People-Power’) that the Greeks invented (the...
Did the Roman arenas of political conflict support the common good? Trey Ratcliff/flickr, Creative Commons History offers countless examples...
A 1969 photo of political theorist and scholar Hannah Arendt. AP Photo Hannah Arendt, a political theorist, fled Germany...
However you read The Prince, it is a reminder that the elementary condition of good government is effective...
The 33rd President of the United States of America, statesman Harry S Truman (1884 – 1972), waving...
Curated/Reviewed by Matthew A. McIntoshPublic HistorianBrewminate The requirement of proof beyond a reasonable doubt has this vital...
President Lyndon Johnson signs a gun-control law in 1968—passed with the N.R.A / Public Domain Edited by...
Photo by Stephen Melkisthenian, Flickr, Creative Commons Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 03.06.2018 Historian Brewminate Editor-in-Chief...
Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 02.25.2018 Historian Brewminate Editor-in-Chief 1 – Civil Liberties and the Bill...
Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh Historian Brewminate Editor-in-Chief 1 – Federalism in the Constitution 1.1 – Introduction...
Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 02.14.2018 Historian Brewminate Editor-in-Chief 1 – Forms of Government Forms of government...
Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 02.17.2018 Historian Breminate Editor-in-Chief 1 – The First American Government 1.1...
Terracotta Army detail, Xi’an, China / Photo by Peter Morgan, Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Rolando Minuti /...
Detail from La Liberté Triomphante (1792), showing Liberty brandishing a thunderbolt in one hand and a Phrygian cap on...
By Dr. Joel Alden Schlosser / 04.17.2017 Assistant Professor of Political Science Bryn Mawr College Schlosser, Joel...
Poet and Nobel Prize winner Czesław Miłosz speaking onstage to a crowd of students at Warsaw University,...
Elements of the Acropolis are thought to have been provided for through the public service of liturgy....
Simone de Beauvoir in Paris in 1949. / Photo from Elliot Erwitt, Magnum By Dr. Skye C. Cleary...