It is incredibly important to remember his role as one of history’s most important proponents of voting rights and democracy
Election History articles on Democracy Chronicles
Here we cover how democracy has progressed through time in our highly suggested global election history coverage. Modern systems of democracy largely arose out of the Europe through the period at the end of the Middle Ages into the Reformation, the Age of Enlightenment, and the American and French Revolutions. However in reality, democratic decision making is an even more ancient invention and in many ways a fixture of nature . Also check out our section on World Democracy.
For African-Americans, celebrity and politics has always mixed
Black celebrities of the 1930s and 1940s weren’t simply entertainers; they were living proof that African-Americans didn’t need to succumb to stereotypes
35 years of NJ restrictions on type GOP voter outreach ended
A U.S. District Court judge has ended 35 years of restrictions on Republican National Committee voter activities
Reviewing the history of religiously unaffiliated voters in America
More unaffiliated Americans identify as independents than as members of the two parties combined
Even After Trump, New York Breeds New Presidential Candidates
New York politicians appear to be following that timeless adage: If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere—like the White House. The state is stacked with high-profile and ambitious politicians whose names keep appearing in lists of potential candidates for a 2020 presidential run. This after a 2016 general election that gave […]
New film tells the story of Swiss women’s suffrage
When did women win the right to vote in prosperous, stable, civilized Switzerland? Many people would be surprised to learn that Swiss women didn’t win the right to vote until 1971.
Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad
The novel was selected for the Oprah Winfrey Book Club in 2016, was the winner of the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction and the 2017 Carnegie Medal of Excellence, and, recently in April, won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Socialist Workers Party Publish Their Newspaper Archives Since 1946
The full archives weekly newspaper of the Socialist Workers Party has been put online for posterity
Long-Silenced Songs of Holocaust Survivors Are Rediscovered
A long-missing reel of songs has been rediscovered, offering a haunting document of the Holocaust
Julius Caesar Versus Donald Trump Furor Misses the Point
Theater staged production of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar starring President Donald Trump look-alike