U.S. Politics

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Pamphlet of "Virginia Women Opposed to Suffrage"
Equal Suffrage Awaits Trial (Prologued, Season 1, Episode 3)
Large group of suffragists on steps
One Hundred Years of Women and the Vote
Official Program: Woman Suffrage Procession, Washington DC March 3, 1913
I have many things to say (Prologued, Season 1, Episode 2)
Harper's Weekly illustration
Top Ten Contested Political Conventions
The headquarters of the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage in 1911.
The Nineteenth Amendment
Suffragettes protest for the right to vote
Prologued Podcast celebrating the 19th Amendment Centennial
poster supporting those lost in Pearl Harbor
Mobilizing for Common Purpose in the COVID Era
Suffragists with signs: "Votes for Women"
The Myth of the Women's Voting Bloc (Prologued, Season 1, Trailer)
President Franklin D. Roosevelt and outgoing President Herbert Hoover on Inauguration Day in 1933.
COVID, the New Deal, and the Importance of Leadership
Senator Joseph McCarthy questioning attorney Joseph Welch during Congress’s Army-McCarthy hearings in 1954.
Media and Politics
John Filo's iconic photograph of Mary Ann Vecchio kneeling over the body of Jeffrey Miller
Kent State after Fifty Years
"Where do we go from here?," a 1920 cartoon depicting the League of Nations Covenant and the Treaty of Versailles
The Versailles Treaty Fight
In 2014, the debate about the underlying causes of "long, hot summers" remerged with the high-profile police killings of Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, Eric Garner, and others.
Long Hot Summers and Separate Societies
Person holding sign that reads "Stop Voter Suppression"
From Poll Taxes to Partisan Gerrymandering: Voter Disenfranchisement in the United States
Illustration of the duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr (1887)
The Hamilton-Burr Duel
Pullman Strike illustration
Top Ten Origins: American Workers and Strikes
man with a gun in a holster
Top Ten Origins: Gun Regulation
Clarence Thomas
Top Ten Origins: Controversial SCOTUS Nominees
A 2017 protest march in San Francisco calling for President Trump’s impeachment.
American Presidential Scandals
book cover of Empire of Cotton - A Global History
Top Ten Origins: Summer 2018 Must Reads
President Richard Nixon
Republican Character
Hillary Clinton
Representations of Women in Politics in Modern Media
A map of the US night sky, showing points of population density
Fault Lines: The Urban-Rural Divide in America
Protestors against the U.S. Trump administration voice their commitment to the world's dispossessed.
The Politics of Refugee Aid in America’s “Short Century”