Kentucky Humanities · Vote Worthy Podcast 3 – Early Voting; Voter Suppression; Ballot Harvesting; the Ballot Drop Box Host, Tom Martin, welcomes Joshua A. Douglas...
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Kentucky Humanities · Vote Worthy Podcast 2 – Women and Minorities in 2020 Politics and Public Service Host, Tom Martin, welcomes Joshua A. Douglas, Distinguished...
Kentucky Humanities · Vote Worthy Podcast 1 – Discussion of Electoral College and Vote Tabulation Host, Tom Martin, welcomes Joshua A. Douglas, Distinguished...
Democracy’s Ghosts: Fear and Hope in the 2020 Election
In a blockbuster cover story, The Atlantic declared November 3, “The Election That Could Break America.” Election experts and scholars are openly discussing...
With Good Reason · The Pandemic Election If you think poll taxes and literacy tests are voting barriers of the past, think again. Gilda Daniels’ new book Uncounted:...
This program was funded by the ‘Why It Matters: Civic and Electoral Participation’ initiative, administered by the Federation of State Humanities Councils...
Florida Decides: A Conversation with Secretary of State Laurel M. Lee
Florida is the nation’s largest swing state where elections are often decided by razor thin margins. Already, local elections officials have begun sending vote-by-mail...
Fulton County in western Illinois, population 35,000, is known as the home of Dickson Mounds, occupied by Native Americans in the Woodland and Mississippian periods;...
When Women Won the Right to Vote: A History Unfinished
The passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920 did not win women the right to vote—despite repeated claims that it did. Just what, then, did the women’s suffrage amendment do...