Episode 8: Voting today and tomorrow
Prof. Martha Kropf of UNC-Charlotte talks about contemporary issues with voting and where we might go from here.
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History of Voting
Stories from historians and voting experts about the history of voting and how it shaped American democracy.
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8 episodesEpisode 7: Native American voting rights
Prof. Paul Rosier of Villanova University talks about the long struggles for Native Americans to access the ballot and the obstacles that st...
Episode 6: The Civil Rights Era
Prof. Brett Gadsden of Northwestern University talks about the foundations of the Civil Rights Era, when voting was both a goal to achieve a...
Episode 5: Women's suffrage
Prof. Lisa Tetrault of Carnegie Mellon talks about how women won the right to vote and why the fight for the ballot didn't stop with the 19t...
Episode 4: The Progressive Era
The late 19th century saw a movement to root out political corruption and enhance the power of the individual voter. It also saw the start o...
Episode 3: Reconstruction
Prof Kate Masur of Northwestern University discusses the impact of Reconstruction on the story of voting in America.
Episode 2: Jacksonian Era
Professor Harry Watson of UNC-Chapel Hill talks about what really made the 1820s-1840s a time of record-breaking turnout in American electio...
Episode 1: Early America
Professor Ed Countryman of Southern Methodist University joins the pod to talk about how voting mattered (or didn't) in the colonial era, du...