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A White Historian Explores Black Voting Rights

African American Women and Electoral Politics from Reconstruction to the New Deal

America's Rotten Borough Electoral College

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"Black Women Will Rally!" Black Women, Intersectional Politics, and the 2016 Presidential Election

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"Colorblind" Injustice: The Supreme Court and the Counter-Revolution in Voting Rights

Circling the Wagons: Conservative Movement Politics and the Rise of Donald Trump

Citizenship at the Point of Production

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Divided Democracy: The Politics of Inequality in the 2016 Election

Divided We Stand: The Battle over Women’s Rights and Family Values That Polarized American Politics

Do We Still Need The Voting Rights Act?

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Electing Abraham Lincoln: The Revolution of 1860

Electing America: Six Campaigns That Reshaped the Modern United States

Elections in the Franklin D. Roosevelt Era

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Fake News from Thomas Jefferson's Time to the present

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How the Electoral College Protected Slavery

How the Tea Party, Occupy Wall Street, and Black Lives Matter Shaped the 2016 Presidential Election

Huey Long, Father Coughlin, fdr, and the Election of 1936

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Modern Presidential Elections That Made History

Myths and Realities of the "White Working-Class Voter"

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Parallels to 2016: Presidential Elections of 1877, 1968, and 2000

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The 2016 Presidential Election and the Transformation of the Blue State—Red State Electoral Map: Retrospect and Prospect

The Academic as Politician: Running for Public Office in 2016

The American Presidency (including the electoral college)

The Election of 1952 and the Pivotal Moments that Shaped the Early Cold War

The Election of 2016 as a Reflection of Systemic Crisis

The Electoral College in Historical Perspective: Antidemocratic Legacies of the American Constitution

The Embattled Vote in America

The Hispanic Republican: The Shaping of an American Political Identity, from Nixon to Trump

The Murky Past and Contested Future of the Electoral College

The People's Will Denied? Backroom Politics and the Election of 1824

The Presidential Election of 1801 - A Speculative History

The Problems with the Electoral College: History, Racism, and the Idea of "One Person, One Vote"

The Strange Career of the Right to Vote in the United States

The Voting Rights Act of 1965

Three Elections that Reshaped the Presidency and the Nation: 1964, 1968, 1972

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Understanding the Workers of Trumpland: How History Shaped the Politics of 2016

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Virtue, Corruption, and Household Politics in the Election of 2016

Voting Rights and Redistricting in Recent American History

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Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College?