Voting is a proud tradition in American History. On this episode of Historia Dr. Aaron Aston takes us on a journey to see how voting has evolved over the first 100 years of the American Republic.
Books by Dr. Astor:
The Civil War along Tennessee's Cumberland Plateau
Rebels on the Border: Civil War, Emancipation, and the Reconstruction of Kentucky and Missouri
Other books discussed:
Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College? by Alexander Keyssar
The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States by Alexander Keyssar
The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War by Joanne Freeman
The American Ballot Box in the Mid-Nineteenth Century by Richard Franklin Bensel
Intro and Outro music is “Marsbilly Stomp” by Twang Darkly
Voting In America with Aaron Astor