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Lithograph of the reservoir of the Manhattan Water Works in 1825.

Corporations in the Early Republic

An explanation of the Manhattan Company, a bank disguised as a municipal water corporation that helped to transform Early Republican politics.

via BackStory on June 20, 2014

Leone Baxter and Clem Whitaker

The Lie Factory: How Politics Became a Business

The field of political consulting was unknown before Leone Baxter and Clem Whitaker founded Campaigns, Inc., in 1933.

by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker on September 17, 2012

The Manly Sport of American Politics

19th-century Americans abandoned the English phrasing of "standing" for election and begin to describe candidates who "run" for office. The race was on.

by Kenneth Cohen via Commonplace on April 1, 2012

Johnson behind President Kennedy as they left the Hotel Texas, in Fort Worth, the day that Kennedy was assassinated.

The Day L.B.J. Took Charge

Lyndon Johnson and the events in Dallas.

by Robert A. Caro via The New Yorker on March 26, 2012

The Education of David Stockman

"None of us really understands what's going on with all these numbers."

by William Greider via The Atlantic on December 15, 1981

A painting of an election taking place.

Children Will Listen

A political education begins with knockoff opinions amid the 1840 U.S. presidential election.

by Andrew Dickson White via Lapham’s Quarterly on March 1, 1905

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