Opinions throughout history Voters' rights /
Grey House Publishing is pleased to offer the eighth volume in a new series - Opinions Throughout History. Each single, in-depth volume is designed to follow the evolution of public opinion on a current, controversial topic as it changed throughout American history. Each volume includes a range of p...
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Amenia, NY :
Grey House Publishing,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The right of ownership: the first elections in the Colonies (1584-1655)
- 2. Establishing American theocracy: disenfranchisement begins in the Colonies with Catholics (1640s-1840s)
- 3. Outliers: early suffrage for persons of color and women (1640s-1790s)
- 4. America is not a direct democracy: the Electoral College and the popular vote (1788-1840s)
- 5. Owning the vote: origins of the voting debate (1700s-1800s)
- 6. Engendering citizenship: prefeminism feminists (1590s-1870s)
- 7. A hierarchy of race: ending slavery (1750s-1850s)
- 8. Voting rights for people of color: the Fifteenth Amendment (1869-1900)
- 9. Serpents of Massachusetts: Gerrymandering explained (1800s-present)
- 10. Women's work: voting from Suffragettes to Hillary Clinton (1840s-2016)
- 11. Indigenous rights: the Native American vote (1800s-present)
- 12. The statistics race: political polling and the vote (1820s-present)
- 13. Paying to vote: introduction of the Poll Tax (1600s-present)
- 14. Civil rights and voting rights: Voting Rights Act (1965-present)
- 15. Age of citizenship: Voting Rights Act Amendment (1970)
- 16. Reading the fine print: literacy testing (1865-1965)
- 17. The fight for access: the elderly and the physically handicapped (1700s-present)
- 18. Voting at home: residency requirements (1970s-2000s)
- 19. Losing the right to vote: voting and the incarcerated (1729-2015)
- 20. The voting state of mind: voting and mental competency (1700s-present)
- 21. A citizen's right: resident aliens and the right to vote (1700s-present)
- 22. The unpopular vote: the ongoing debate about the Electoral College (2000s-present)
- 23. Identity and the right to vote: the battle over voter ID laws (1950s-present)
- 24. The right to change: felon disenfranchisement and race (1960s-present)
- 25. Interference and ideology: foreign influence in the American electoral process (1700-present)
- 26. The specter of fraud: public opinion about voter fraud (1888-present)
- 27. Modernizing the vote: voting in the digital age (2010s-present)
- 28. Getting out the vote: voter participation, past and future (1700s-present)
- 29. Conclusion: the importance of the vote.