This year, the candidate leading on election night may not ultimately be declared the winner. That’s where the problems started in 1876.
John Bicknell
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John Bicknell.
Aug 6, 2020
Richard Ellis shows that there was much more to the 1840 presidential contest than hard cider and log cabins.
May 19, 2020
Two new books carry Abraham Lincoln across the country and toward apotheosis.
Feb 7, 2020
Dickens’ and de Tocqueville’s travels in 19th century America still provide a guide for understanding today’s divisive politics.
Nov 5, 2019
The historian has written another fine book about the American past, but the “woke” historians and reviewers feel triggered by him.
John Bicknell is the author of Lincoln’s Pathfinder: John C. Fremont and the Violent Election of 1856 and America 1844: Religious Fervor, Westward Expansion and the Presidential Election that Transformed the Nation.