Batstone, David, and Eduardo Mendieta, eds.The Good Citizen. Routledge, 2000. Nine well-known scholars discuss the idea and the ideal of citizenship.
Halsey, Richard S.The Citizen Action Encyclopedia. Greenwood, 2001. Activities, organizations, people and events that make up the history of citizen activism in America in the 20th century.
Holston, James, ed.Cities and Citzenship. Duke University Press, 1998. A prize-winning collection that underscores the importance of cities in the making of modern citizens.
Manville, Philip Brook.The Origins of Citizenship in Ancient Athens. Princeton University Press, 1997. Explanation of the development and evolution of the concept of citizenship in ancient Athens, Greece.
Ravitch, Diane, and Joseph P. Viteritti, eds.Making Good Citizens. Yale University Press, 2001. Assesses the decline of civic participation and commitment in American democracy.
Schudson, Michael.The Good Citizen: A History of American Public Life. The Free Press, 1998. History of how the rights and responsibilities of American citizenship have evolved from colonial times to the present.
For younger readers
De Capua, Sarah.Becoming a Citizen. Children's Press, 2002. For readers in grades 3 to 5.
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