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WEEKLY SESSIONS

SESSION I: 1787 – the Constitutional Convention. Article II of the Constitution. Hamilton, Federalist papers #68.

#1 – U.S. Constitution Article I Section 2 The House of Representatives

#2 – U.S. Constitution Article II Section 1 The Presidency

#3 – Hamilton and Federalist #68

#4 – Bunting’s Effort to Translate Hamilton’s 18th Century Legalese

#5 – The Constitution and Slavery

SESSION II: 1800 and 1824 – Two Contingent Elections. The 12th Amendment

Current Electoral Map 2024

Trump ramps up push for Nebraska to change
electoral vote allocation

#6 – Presidential Elections, 1789 – 1840

#7 – Twelfth Amendment – U.S. Constitution

#8 – Election of 1800

#9 – Election of 1824

#10 – It’s Really Hard to Change Electoral College Rules

SESSION III: Election of 1840: Whig Triumph; 1860 – Lincoln elected, Civil War

#11 – Presidential Elections, 1844 – 1900

#12 – Elections of 1836 and 1840

#13 – Whig/Harrison Political Cartoon

#14 – Presidential Administrations by Party 1789 – 1860

#15 – Two Momentous Decades – The 1840s and 1850s: A Brief Timeline

#16 – 1860 Electoral Vote Map – Lincoln Elected

#17 – Table 3: Electoral and Popular Votes for President in 1860

#18 – Historic Lincoln Documents

#19 – Reconstruction Amendments

SESSION IV: 1876 – The Disputed Election, Hayes v. Tilden. The Compromise of 1877. The Electoral Count Act of 1887

#20 – Presidential Administrations by Party 1860 – 1932

#21 – The Election of 1876 – A Late 19th Century Constitutional Crisis

#22 – 1876 Vote Map

#23 – Election of 1876 State by State Results

#24 – The Electoral Count Act of 1887

SESSION V – The 20th Century to 1960

#25 – Presidential Elections 1904 – 1960

#26 – Map of Election of 1912

#27 – Popular and Electoral Vote for President in 1912

#28 – Wilson to FDR – Key Events in American History, 1912 to 1933

#29 – Maps of Elections of 1928 and 1932

#30 – Presidential Administrations by Party 1932 to 2024

#31 – FDR to JFK – Key Events in American History, 1932 to 1960

#32 – 1960 Presidential Election Returns: Extremely Close States, Number of Votes, Percentage Difference, Electoral Votes

SESSION VI – Elections of 1968 and 1992, The Election of 2000 – Bush v. Gore, The Independent State Legislature Theory, The Electoral Count Reform Act of 2022

#33 – Map of the Election of 1960

#34 – Presidential Elections 1964 – 2020

#35 – Map of the Election of 1968

#36 – Bush v. Gore

#37 – Background on the Independent State Legislature Theory

#38 – Key Provisions of the Electoral Count Reform Act of 2022: Summary provided by Senator Collins’s office; last handwritten sentence added by Jim Bunting