Hallie Quinn Brown and other “homespun heroines”. Hallie Quinn Brown knew the power of black women and...
Election
She was a famous activist in her day, arguably the most famous in the world. By Tom...
Many kingdoms were elective historically, though the candidates were typically only from the family of the deceased...
Roughly fifty years after a handful of suffragists conceived the idea, it became a hard-fought reality. Introduction...
The more that efforts to suppress voting rights in America change, the more they remain the same....
Iowa is unrepresentative–disproportionately whiter, older, and more rural than the country as a whole. Every four years,...
As the favorite son of Ohio, Rutherford B. Hayes had much in his favor. The Campaign and...
The year 1824 was a political turning point in which none of the old rules applied. The...
He won the support of Roosevelt’s “New Deal” coalition: labor, Blacks, Jews, farmers from the Midwest, and...
Lyrics ranged from broad satire to sincere political expression, demonstrating just how effective a messenger music can...
Roosevelt won the greatest electoral landslide since the beginning of the two-party system in the 1850s. Introduction...
Procedures for electing members of Congress in the early republic greatly differed from the single-district system that...
This was a period of great experimentation and change in the development of political parties. The framers...
The first representative assembly in English America convened in Jamestown’s church July 30, 1619. By Ed Crews...
Gerrymandering, the politicians’ practice of drawing district lines to favor their party and expand their power, is...
Examining the two-hundred-year-old creation of Founding Father Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts. By Harlow Giles Unger As Americans...
Andrew Jackson and his supporters felt that the 1824 Presidential election had been stolen from him, which...
John Quincy Adams was the last of the “notables” that began with George Washington. Introduction Only twice...
For many voters, wearing political paraphernalia is their personal connection to a candidate. On April 30, 1789,...
The changes the 20th century brought to American politics continue to hold true in the 21st century....
There has never been anything like it before or since. We are told that this year’s presidential...
It was the single largest extension of voting rights in our nation’s history. The woman suffrage movement...
What if, in November, instead of disappearing behind a curtain to exercise your right to vote, you...