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• SOURCE: NPR
  1/6/20
  

  A Historical Look At Whether A Democrat Can Win By Playing To The Progressive Base Featuring Michael Kazin

  Featuring historian Michaael Kazin. 

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• SOURCE: BBC News
  1/6/20
  

  Did Britain meddle in a US presidential election?

  When US President George HW Bush craved "a smoking gun" in 1992 to politically kneecap his White House challenger Bill Clinton, the British government delved into its files for damaging information. 

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• SOURCE: History.com
  11/25/19
  

  Elections in Colonial America Were Huge, Booze-Fueled Parties

  Candidate George Washington plied potential voters with 47 gallons of beer, 35 gallons of wine, 2 gallons of cider, 3 1/2 pints of brandy and a whopping 70 gallons of rum punch.

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• SOURCE: History.com
  11/25/19
  

  Why Is Iowa the First State to Vote?

  Since 1972, the Iowa Caucus has been the first—and some argue most important—electoral test on the road to each party’s presidential nomination. But how did it get that way? 

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• 11/24/19
  

  Russian Victories in the Post-Cold War Era

  by Albert M. Camarillo

  Putin’s Russia is winning battles to destabilize the U.S. that former USSR leaders such as Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev, and Leonid Brezhnev had tried but failed.

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• SOURCE: Politico Magazine
  11/11/19
  

  History Says Bloomberg 2020 Would Be a Sure Loser

  Almost every four years, there’s a last-minute panic candidate for the presidency. They never win.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11/10/19
  

  The last time Kentucky fought over a gubernatorial election, the governor got killed

  The violence in 1899 left Kentucky on the brink of a civil war.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  11/1/19
  

  Mississippi governor’s race taking place under Jim Crow-era rules after judge refuses to block them

  by Gideon Cohn-Postar

  A federal judge ruled on Nov. 1 that he would not stop Mississippi voters from electing a governor on Tuesday under an old, Jim Crow-era election law that a civil rights lawsuit argues perpetuates “white supremacy” and violates the principle of “one-person, one-vote.”

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  November 3, 2019
  

  Presidential Candidates Crave the Spotlight. 200 Years Ago That Was Taboo.

  by David Botti

  For a century, presidential candidates were discouraged from openly campaigning - lest they appear power hungry like the British king America revolted against. Here's why that all changed. 

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• 11/3/19
  

  Elbridge Gerry’s Monster Salamander that Swallows Votes

  by Harlow Giles Unger

  As Americans prepare to vote in local and state elections on Election Day, tens of thousands--even millions--will find their votes chewed, swallowed, and discarded by a monstrous “salamander”—the two-hundred-year-old creation of Founding Father Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts.

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• 11/3/19
  

  This Election Day, Remember That Local Politics Matter

  by Jonah Hassenfeld

  In 1831, Alexis de Toqueville concluded local government  was “the life and mainspring of American liberty.” 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/07/2019
  

  Nancy Pelosi Retweets Op Ed By Historian Jordan E. Taylor

  by Jordan E. Taylor

  The origins of our efforts to keep foreign countries out of our elections.

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• SOURCE: Bloomberg News
  9/26/19
  

  Will Impeachment Backfire? Here's What History Suggests.

  Featuring the insights of historian Brenda Wineapple. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/11/19
  

  A woman who ran for president in 1872 was compared to Satan and locked up. It wasn’t for her emails.

  Woodhull sought to unite a coalition of African Americans, abolitionists, laborers, suffragists and 19th-century Spiritualists — groups that found themselves without a voice in government and relegated to the fringes of power.

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• SOURCE: Time
  7/9/19
  

  How Ross Perot Changed Political Campaigns

  Ross Perot, the self-made Texas billionaire and one of the most successful third-party presidential candidates in U.S. history, died on Tuesday. He was 89.

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• 6/23/19
  

  How Estes and Ike Transformed the New Hampshire Primary – And How JFK Defined It

  by Patrick Lacroix

  The New Hampshire primary isn't just important because it's the first presidential primary. 

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  5/21/19
  

  Living in a Nation of Political Narcissists

  by Tom Engelhardt

  American election exceptionalism from 1945-2019.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  5/2/19
  

  Unethical, even illegal campaign tactics are an American tradition

  by Steffen W. Schmidt

  Since the earliest years of the republic, candidates have used deceptive, underhanded and dubiously legal tactics to discredit their opponents.

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• 4/30/19
  

  6 Presidents Who Never Lost an Election

  by Ronald L. Feinman

  Of America’s 44 presidents, only six have won every election they have contested. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/29/19
  

  Can Bill Weld unseat Trump? Let’s look at the history of challenges to incumbent presidents.

  Unseating a president from his own party isn’t easy.