Originally publushed in 2002. In Downsizing Democracy, Matthew A. Crenson and Benjamin Ginsberg describe how the once...... more

Baltimore, where slavery once existed alongside the largest community of free blacks in the United States. Matthew A. Crenson, a...... more

Profiling the ten most populous cities in the United States during ten critical eras of political de... more

orphanage and the rise of welfare. Matthew Crenson argues that the prehistory of the welfare system was played out not on the...... more

the United States. Matthew A. Crenson, a distinguished political scientist and Baltimore native, examines the role of...... more

Each spring, hundreds of thousands of horseshoe crabs crawl from the bottom of Delaware Bay to lay b... more