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2016 electoral college map.

Original Sin: The Electoral College as a Pro-Slavery Tool

Slave states gave us the Electoral College; we should get rid of this vestige of the so-called peculiar institution.

by Paul Finkelman via Los Angeles Review of Books on December 19, 2016

Political cartoon of U.S. President Martin Van Buren sitting on a fence as men on each side try to pull him toward them.

The Spirit of Party and Faction

On factional strife in the Early Republic, and why parties themselves were universally despised.

via BackStory on June 13, 2014

Flag in front of a church.

Iowa: A Pastor's Son Notes When Politics Came to the Pulpit

A pastor's son reflects on his evangelical father's beliefs regarding politics in the pulpit.

by Randall Balmer via Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera on October 27, 2012

A political cartoon depicting the candidates in the 1824 election.

Was Andrew Jackson Really the People's Choice in 1824?

In 1828, Jackson's campaign argued that an 1824 victory was stolen from him. Is it really so clear-cut?

by Donald J. Radcliffe via Commonplace on October 1, 2008

A political cartoon of Franklin Delano Roosevelt with a crow on his shoulder, representing Jim Crow.

The Not-So-New Deal

The New Deal brought Black voters over to the Democratic Party, but was marred by racial inequality.

by C. Vann Woodward via New York Review of Books on December 8, 1983

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