Smithsonian Magazine1d
This Defeated Presidential Candidate, Once the ‘Best-Known Man in America,’ Died in a Sanatorium Less Than a Month After Losing the Election
Newspaper editor Horace Greeley unsuccessfully ran against incumbent Ulysses S. Grant in November 1872. Twenty-four days ...
The First Woman to Run For President Was a Spiritualist, Wall Street Broker, and Free-Love Advocate
Long before Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris launched their presidential campaigns, Victoria Claflin Woodhull ran as a third ...
5 biggest US presidential election upsets since 1872
ATS.io compiled and ranked the five biggest poll-defying U.S. presidential election upsets since 1872 using data from Sports ...
YES! Magazine7dAnalysis
Democrats Embrace the Power of Nontoxic Masculinity
To show their support of a future Madame President, Gov. Tim Walz and others in the party are publicly relinquishing male ...
The Threat of the Comstock Act to Abortion Rights If Kamala Harris Loses
The Comstock Act was named for Anthony Comstock, a leader of the anti-obscenity movement. It grew out of his effort to stifle ...
Salon7d
“Eerie similarities": CNN's Dana Bash on "America's deadliest election," fact-checking and Trump
In 1872 in Louisiana, there was real violence ... Then we fast-forward to 1876, the presidential election where this kind of corruption was true in Louisiana again, and also other states. The ...
Fox 5 NY10d
Trailblazing women who ran for president before Kamala Harris
Before Kamala Harris, many pioneering women broke barriers by running for U.S. president. From Victoria Claflin Woodhull in ...
NOLA.com10d
CNN anchor digs into Louisiana's contentious 1872 governor's election that sparked violence
For a troubling answer, a new book looks at the aftermath of the 1872 Louisiana governor's election between William Pitt ...
The Advocate10d
CNN anchor delves into a contentious 1872 Louisiana governor's election that sowed violence
For a troubling answer, a new book looks at the aftermath of the 1872 Louisiana governor's election between William Pitt ...
Mediaite12d
‘You Can’t Force Somebody To Answer a Question’: Dana Bash On Her Kamala Harris Interview and Upcoming Debate
With her co-author David Fisher, she chronicles the little-known history of an election of 1872 that turned chaotic and violent ... alongside Jake Tapper, the first presidential debate of this ...
The Washington Post14d
An 1872 election turned violent. It could be a lesson for 2024.
Grant in the 1868 presidential race ... Bash and Fisher explain that, by the time the next gubernatorial election arrived, in 1872, “at every step in the process there existed some type of ...