Pulling the Curtain: Voting in America [rebroadcast]

52 Minuten

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BackStory is a weekly public podcast hosted by U.S. historians Ed Ayers, Brian Balogh, Nathan Connolly and Joanne Freeman. We're based in Charlottesville, Va. at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. Each week we take a topic that people are t...

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vor 9 Jahren

If the record TV viewership of the Clinton-Trump presidential
debates is any guide, voter turnout for the November election could
reach levels not seen since the Gilded Age. It’s easy to be
nostalgic for the consistently high voter turnout in the late 19th
century, until you consider all the people who weren’t eligible to
vote back then. In this episode of BackStory, the History Guys look
at voting trends - from the changing mechanisms of voting to how
the electoral college system maintained racial hierarchies in the
South.

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