In examining the history of Congress’ influence over elections, USC Gould Dean Franita Tolson focuses on the 18th and 19th centuries.
Congress designates Sept. 17 as a day to recognize the value and history of the guiding document.
Trojan faculty experts in political behavior, artificial intelligence and media literacy weigh in on global pressures and possible solutions.
As America celebrates 250 years of independence, USC Dornsife historians offer a broader view of when the Revolution began, when it ended and what it still means today.
USC Dornsife historian Steve Ross uncovers the forgotten story of civilian spies who infiltrated postwar Nazi and white supremacist groups — and risked their lives to stop them.
These USC Gould scholars are exploring fundamental questions in legal thought. Their research goes beyond how to describe and interpret a law, examining what it ought to be and why.
The Theatre for Dialogue event invited the USC community to find connection on the other side of disagreement.
European colonial powers linked church and state. But the founders of the United States broke from that idea as surely as they broke from Britain.
As the nation marks its 250th anniversary, USC scholars continue to advance a tradition central to science and democracy: questioning assumptions, testing ideas and pushing beyond accepted limits.
Survival as a colonist meant enduring hard labor and rigid hierarchies in a rural world shaped by inequality and lack of privacy. USC Dornsife experts explain.
