In the mid-19th century, election ballots were created by political parties, not the government. Local Republican and Democratic operatives designed and printed their own ballots, also called ...

Looking back more than 100 years, women who advocated for the right to vote, called suffragettes, used sartorial statements ...

The story, though likely untrue, is certainly plausible. Election Day in 19th-century America was a loud, raucous, often dangerous event. Political parties would offer food, drink and inducements ...

proposed two measures on Wednesday that would significantly reform flawed 19th-century laws that still govern U.S. presidential elections. Changes must be made to the Presidential Election Day Act ...

Though local suffrage slowly opened to women in many states, suffragists continued their fight for national voting rights through the 19th century. Mocked, jailed, beaten, and force-fed ...

The introduction of voting machines in the last decade of the 19th century was designed to reduce rampant corruption. In reality, all the machines did was keep dishonest politicians’ mischief ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Jon Grinspan talks about the tactics used by political parties in the late 19th century to secure votes, with public rallies, newspapers and even ...

and Voting Popular in the Nineteenth Century, discusses youth interest during the 1800's including their partisan ideals, disenfranchisement with the minimum voting age of 21 years old ...

Several presidential elections at the end of the 19th century were extremely close. Cleveland won the popular vote in 1884 by less than 1%. He won it again in 1888 by a similar margin but lost to ...

We need to look back much further to the 19th century to find a comparison. Donald Trump’s margins of about 1.6% in the popular vote and 86 votes in Electoral College joins all 21st century ...

Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, courtesy of the Allen County Public Library In the mid-19th century, election ballots were created by political parties, not the government. Local ...