The Electoral College Course Website
Instructor
Jim Bunting
Email: buntingj207@yahoo.com
Cohost
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
#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
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
- No Property in Man by Sean Wilentz (2018)
- Negro President: Jefferson and the Slave Power by Garry Wills (2003)
- The One-Party Presidential Contest by Donald Ratcliffe (2015)
- The Election of 1860: A Campaign Fraught With Consequences by Michael Holt (2017)
- By One Vote: The Disputed Presidential Election of 1876 by Michael Holt (2008)