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• Originally published 08/31/2016

  OAH President Nancy Cott says the Library of Congress is being politicized

  Nancy Cott

  Her comments come in the wake of the nomination of Carla Hayden as the new Librarian of Congress.

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• Originally published 05/19/2015

  Why are we so polarized and when did this start? An interview with William Galston.

  William Galston

  This interview stems from “Polarization in a Historical Perspective,” filmed at the Miller Center in 2014.

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• Originally published 11/17/2014

  What Makes a Democrat a Democrat and a Republican a Republican? It's More Complicated than You Think.

  Jason Weeden and Robert Kurzban

  Even with the recent uptick in people with fulsomely liberal or fulsomely conservative views, it remains the case that a large majority of the public has liberal views on some issues and conservative views on others.

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• Originally published 01/16/2014

  Our Politics May Be Polarized. But That’s Nothing New.

  David W. Brady and Hahrie Han

  Political science provides an answer.

• Originally published 01/29/2013

  Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg: No Red States, No Blue States

  Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg are professors of history at LSU and coauthors of "Madison and Jefferson," now a Random House paperback. When Virginian Thomas Jefferson provocatively wrote that the tree of liberty would have to be refreshed periodically with the blood of patriots and tyrants, he did not reckon on tyranny arising in the midst of the Virginia state Legislature from a creeping faction of smarmy hooligans primed to convert Democratic districts into Republican ones overnight. It’s in the news this week. But it’s been brewing ever since Bush v. Gore.Someone’s always talking about dumping the general ticket plurality system – the way we have tallied the votes of the states in presidential elections since 1789 – in favor of the district system. By this means we would be tallying electoral votes one congressional district at a time rather than awarding all of a state’s electoral votes to a single candidate. Article Two, Section 1 of the Constitution says that each state legislature determines on its own how its presidential electors (i.e., those who comprise the Electoral College) are to be chosen.