Historia

Voting In America with Aaron Astor


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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 PlateauRebels 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 KeyssarThe Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States by Alexander KeyssarThe Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War by Joanne FreemanThe American Ballot Box in the Mid-Nineteenth Century by Richard Franklin Bensel

Intro and Outro music is “Marsbilly Stomp” by Twang Darkly



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