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[Book Talk] Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College? with Prof. Alex Keyssar
October 8, 2020
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12:00PM - 1:00PM EDT
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In just over three weeks, millions will head to the polls and elect the president of the United States via an arcane institution that permits the loser of the popular vote to win, and narrows campaigning to just a handful of swing states. In this...

[Radcliffe] 2020 Visions
Dec 3, 2020
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4:00PM EST
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Too often, the story of women’s suffrage unfolds in a vacuum, seemingly unconnected from the general contours of American history. This concluding session looks back from the present, asking experts working in a variety of disciplines and organizations to...

[Radcliffe] New Blocs, New Maps, New Power (ca. 1982)
Oct 22, 2020
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By the early 1980s, a new political landscape was taking shape that would fundamentally influence American society and politics in the decades to come. That year, the long-standing effort to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment—championed by suffragist Alice...

[Radcliffe] On Account of Race (1965)
Oct 15, 2020
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The passage of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) in 1965 marked one culmination of a long civil rights movement that began in the wake of the American Civil War and gathered steam in the early 20th century, long before the Montgomery bus boycotts and the...

[Radcliffe] On Account of Sex (1920)
Oct 1, 2020
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The passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920 did not “give” women the vote. Rather, it established a negative: that the right to vote could not be abridged on account of sex alone. When the amendment passed, many women were already voting in states that...

[Radcliffe] Origin Stories: Keynote Address (1848)
Aug 26, 2020
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We will begin our series, "Voting Matters: Gender, Citizenship, and the Long 19th Amendment," with a keynote address by the historian Martha S. Jones, who will root the generations-long movement for women’s suffrage in the activism of African American...

[Radcliffe] Reconstructing the Polity (1870)
Sep 17, 2020
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The reconstruction of the American polity after the Civil War—in particular, the adoption of the 15th Amendment in 1870—marked a key moment in the long history of the 19th Amendment, women’s political mobilization, and the contested boundaries of United...

A Conversation with Valerie Jarrett on National Voter Registration Day
September 22, 2020
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3:30PM - 4:00PM EDT
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Join Harvard Votes Challenge in celebrating National Voter Registration Day with Valerie Jarrett, businesswoman, senior advisor to President Barack Obama, a board member at When We All Vote, and advocate for equality & justice. David Wilkins, the Lester...

A Discussion on Black Lives, Protest, and Democracy
June 9, 2020
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12:00PM - 1:00PM EDT
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Protests continue to sweep across the United States following the violent killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Breonna Taylor in Louisville, and countless others at the hands of police. Join the Ash Center for a conversation with leading scholars and...

A New Deal During COVID-19: A Million-Person Health Corps?
June 10, 2020
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12:00PM - 1:00PM EDT
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The COVID-19 pandemic has destroyed our health and economy. Several leading thinkers have proposed a massive public jobs program, reminiscent of the New Deal Civilian Conservation Corps and Works Progress Administration, that would hire hundreds of...

Advancing a National Movement for Full Participation in Elections
Sep 25, 2020
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12:00AM EDT
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The IOP’s National Campaign brings together students and administrators from colleges and universities across the nation to engage with one another on issues of civic and political participation, and to develop best practices for increasing democratic...