African-American voter turnout in record numbers surpassed 2008 among the voters nationwide: Voting wasn’t permitted going back to the post-Civil War period
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.
First African-American Senator in South Since 1881
South Carolina Senator Tim Scott is first African-American to have position since Reconstruction
New Book Examines Golden Era of Spain’s Basques
Golden Era of Spain’s Basque people has lived on France border for millennium in Spanish Pyrenees
How to Move Society Towards Direct Democracy
Direct democracy is possible if the American people engage the tough issues and build consensus that deliberation and debate are central to everything we do
New Books Blame Stalin Expansionism for Cold War
Stalin expansionism plan explains why he never returned Eastern Europe to independence of any sort
Revolutionary Solzhenitsyn Novel’s Anniversary on USSR Gulag
The Gulag system shocked the world as historians mark epic USSR Solzhenitsyn novel’s anniversary
New Book Revisits Thomas Jefferson, the Man
Book revisits Thomas Jefferson’s contribution to democracy theory and practice cements his place in history
On Arabs, Ottomans and Modern Turkey
Turkey can leverage its unique history and lead region into arms of democratic world. If Turkey is to retake its place as the center of Muslim thought and power, as it has every right to do, it must stand up to the dictatorships on its borders and embrace its true allies in the democratic world.
Nobel Committee Honors Successful Eastern European Democracy Transition
Following the Cold War, Southern Europe and Eastern European Democracy Has Spread Like Wildfire
Thomas Nast Political Cartoons Circa Civil War
Thomas Nast Political Cartoons Still Unusual Today in a Visual World. Nast was perhaps the most important political cartoonist of American history. Tammany Hall beware.