Steven Smith

Smith has worked on Capitol Hill in several capacities and has served as a senior fellow at the Brooking Institution and is the former director of WashU’s Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy. He has also authored or co-authored six books on congressional politics and recently a book on the formation of […]

Iver Bernstein

Bernstein’s scholarly interests focus on the processes by which the United States political regime was invented, reinvented, ruptured and re-created over the long era of the Revolution and Founding through the Civil War and Reconstruction and the ways in which the traumas of slavery, race and war–and the representations of those traumas–shaped those dramas of […]