Barry Goldwater and the remaking of the American political landscape

The Origins of the Necessary and Proper Clause

Henry W. Blair's campaign to reform America from the Civil War to the U.S. Senate

The gentleman from Illinois stories from forty years of elective public service

The Latina advantage gender, race, and political success

Bridging the information gap legislative member organizations as social networks in the United States and the European Union

Joe Moakley's journey from South Boston to El Salvador

Concordance Black lawmaking in the U.S. Congress from Carter to Obama

Term limits and their consequences the aftermath of legislative reform

From slave to state legislator John W. E. Thomas, Illinois' first African American lawmaker

Nobody calls just to say hello reflections on twenty-two years in the Illinois Senate

The heroic and the notorious U.S. Senators from Illinois