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Patrick Henry Addressing the Virginia Assembly. Lithograph from the painting by A. Chappal. Engraved by H. B. Hall.
A Time to Listen
Florida Supreme Court during the 2000 presidential election recount.
Disputed Elections: An American Tradition
Map of the Electoral College for the 2024 United States presidential election.
Arguing the Electoral College: Con
In the 2020 presidential election (held using 2010 census data) Joe Biden received 306 (●) and Donald Trump 232 (●) of the total 538 electoral votes. In Maine (upper-right) and Nebraska (center), the small circled numbers indicate congressional districts. These are the only two states to use a district method for some of their allocated electors, instead of a complete winner-takes-all.
Arguing the Electoral College: Pro
Statue of Samuel J. Tilden in New York City.
Presidential Electoral Controversy Nothing New in Florida
Restored color photo of President Rutherford B. Hayes.
Will an Eighteenth-Century Election System Paralyze America in the Twenty-First Century?
Mikhail Gorbachev and President Ronald Reagan posing for a photograph in the White House Library.
The American “Nation Building” Mission and Russia
President Bush makes remarks in 2006 during a press conference in the Rose Garden about Iran's nuclear ambitions and discusses North Korea's nuclear test.
After 50 Years, a Great Military Debate Resumes
Chris Anderson asks: "Will you run again?" Gore replies, "Ohh, you aren't going to get me on this one!"
But Gore Did Help Invent the Internet
Photo of Eugene V. Debs from 1900.
Let’s Hear It for the Losers!
Caricature of President Nixon in 1970.
Patrick J. Buchanan: a Populist, Not a Conservative
Coach Bob Knight holding a chair
Bob Knight: A Latter-Day MacArthur?
U.S. Supreme Court building.
Tearing Down the “Wall of Separation between Church and State”
President Clinton and Vice President Gore sitting in the Oval Office in 1996.
An October Surprise Again?
Senator Joe Lieberman
Accepting Joseph Lieberman: The Electorate Grows Up
President Lyndon B. Johnson giving a speech about the Voting Rights Act with a statute of President Abraham Lincoln in the background.
The Republican Party and African-Americans: The Real History
Photo of "Fighting Bob" La Follette
Lessons for the Nader Camp: ‘Fighting Bob’ La Follette in 1924
Dick Cheney in 2003.
The Vice President: Heir Apparent in American Politics
The Titanic sailing from Southampton in 1912.
Is History Really Bunk?
Waiting for a Chinook, by C.M. Russell. Overgrazing and harsh winters were factors that brought an end to the age of the Open Range.
Dot-Coms and the Great Cattle Die-Off
Tulsa aftermath. Jun 1, 1921.
In Oklahoma, Another Debate About Reparations
An engraving of Earl Cornwallis's surrender to George Washington during the American Revolution.
Hollywood’s American Revolution
John D. Rockefeller in 1914.
Bill Gates — Another Rockefeller or Another Ford?
President Bill Clinton addressing a high school in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1999.
The Politics of Compassion