The common excuses of “our vote doesn’t matter” stems from the fact that citizens don’t feel they can exert the influence that those with large monetary wealth do. In an era of history where inequality is as high as it was during the Gilded Age, this feeling is only natural.
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.
Harvard Politics Students Fail 1964 Louisiana Literacy Test
Top Harvard students find Louisiana Literacy Test from 1964 was basically impossible, designed with intention of African-American voter suppression only
Did Collapse of Berlin Wall Effect American Democracy?
The collapse of the Berlin Wall effect Americans never saw coming: a weaker US election system
The Public Should Reexamine Columbus and Amerigo Vespucci
Vespucci was a genuine navigator. Unlike Columbus, Vespucci knew where he was. In fact, Vespucci was one of the very few people who could find longitude before the introduction of the marine chronometer.
Labour Revitalized: A New British Labour Party?
One cannot ignore that New British Labour Party achieved historic success under its revamped policies, and therefore New Labour was far more than a set of disconnected ideas, it was a centre-left revolution.
Painting Series for Anniversary of JFK Assassination
My most ambitious series to date is this 50 work series devoted to 2013’s 50th anniversary of the JFK assassination. I tried to combine familiar media imagery from the weekend of November 22nd 1963 with abstractions of form, to make original statements about this iconic socio-cultural-political event.
Planet Mars: Our Vanished Alter Ego?
Perhaps, if Mars had the same beginnings that history has revealed to us on Earth, and that, for a time, it may have been magnificent, that if somehow it lost its way and destroyed itself, hopefully we can take a different path.
VIDEO: Historian Slams Dark Money Explosion in U.S. Elections
Historically, the lack of transparency in election spending is unprecedented amid massive dark money explosion
Longtime Haiti Dictator Dies But National Poverty Continues
After Haiti dictator dies, residents in the poorest country in the Americas consider the legacy of ‘president for life’ Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier and the disrepair left by his reign
Transparency Group Builds State by State Digital Archives
Revolutionary War records, slave records, Civil War pensioners, Indian census counts and other government data are reserved in state digital archives