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Constitution Day commemorates the formation and signing of the United States Constitution on September 17th, 1787. This collection of titles provides insight into how the Constitution has been amended and utilized to define the basic rights of United States citizens and highlights the cases and people who fought for those rights.

For International Day of Democracy on September 15th, we recognize the importance of upholding the principles of democracy. Here is a collection of titles that help to guide students in understanding democracy and how its application in our own government affects our country and our lives. Find the full collection here.

In celebration of Women’s Equality Day on August 26th and the 1920 adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, we are sharing books about women whose activism and determination secured them the right to vote, and the women who followed in their footsteps to push for further equality.

Attack from Within is an urgent, comprehensive explanation of the ways disinformation is impacting democracy, and practical solutions that can be pursued to strengthen the public, media, and truth-based politics. MSNBC’s legal expert breaks down the ways disinformation has become a tool to drive voters to extremes, disempower our legal structures, and consolidate power in

We are sharing books for World Refugee Day on June 20th to bring light to the struggles refugees currently face. By sharing the individual stories of refugees whose lives have been dismantled and who have moved beyond catastrophic circumstances, we hope to inspire education on how to contribute to creating a world in which people

In 2012, 25-year-old Jackie Moyer—the daughter of a forbidden marriage between a white American father and a Punjabi American mother—leased 10 acres of land in Gold Hill, California, and embarked on a career in organic farming. With a fractured relationship to her heritage, Moyer saw an opportunity for repair when she learned of a nearly

You can search for books across this discipline through our course lists, which cover American Government and Politics, Comparative Politics, International Relations, Introduction to Political Science, Public Policy & Public Administration, and more. American Government and Politics Comparative Politics International Relations Introduction to Political Science Public Policy and Public Administration

In Black Women Taught Us: An Intimate History of Black Feminism, Jenn M. Jackson, PhD, sets the record straight about Black women’s longtime movement organizing, theorizing, and coalition building in the name of racial, gender, and sexual justice in the United States and abroad. Based in part on a course they teach at Syracuse University,

Total Garbage is an investigative narrative that dives into the waste embedded in our daily lives—and shows how individuals and communities are making a real difference for health, prosperity, quality of life and the fight against climate change, by a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Edward Humes.   1 Our Disposable Age The innocent question that

Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Nonfiction The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a “provocative and compelling” (NPR) argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it. Access educator resources for the book at: endpovertyusa.org/#teaching-resources   Chapter 1 The Kind of Problem Poverty Is I

We are pleased to share a new resource for Pulitzer Prize–winning sociologist Matthew Desmond’s Poverty, by America, out in paperback on March 26, 2024. Click here to access and download an extensive PowerPoint presentation, created to aid and enhance the teaching of the book and easily adaptable to meet educators’ course needs. In this landmark

Browse these new and notable titles for use in your Political Science courses. To request complimentary exam copies for course-use consideration, click here.