In Republican Party Politics and the American South, 1865–1968, Heersink and Jenkins examine how National Convention politics allowed the South to remain impo

Traces how the Republican Party in the South after Reconstruction transformed from a biracial organization to a mostly all-white one.

This highly readable narrative history of the Republican Party profiles the G.O.P. from its emergence as an antislavery party during the 1850s to its current pl

In The Long Southern Strategy, Angie Maxwell and Todd Shields trace the consequences of the GOP's decision to court white voters in the South. Over time, Republ

A new assessment on the role, influence, and limitations of the Democratic and Republican National Committees in American political development. Scholars have l