While atheists, agnostics, and avowed secularists are still in the minority (according to virtually all polls), they are nevertheless on the move. There are indications that their forces are growing and they are most certainly making inroads into the public square. By all accounts, more people are listening to them, helping to drive atheist authors ...
The division of the American nation at the end of the 19th century was significant in several ways. First, the destruction of the last greatest rural political effort by the Populists signaled the end of the farmer-politician in America. The next great progressive movement, that of Robert LaFollette and Teddy Roosevelt, was one of the ...
Candidates: Republican Party: William McKinley (Ohio) and Theodore Roosevelt (New York) Democratic Party: William Jennings Bryan (Nebraska) and Adlai Stevenson (Illinois) Election Results: McKinley and Roosevelt: 7.21 million popular votes, 292 electoral votes. Bryan and Stevenson: 6.35 million popular votes, 155 electoral votes. Summary: William McKinley’s renomination in 1900 was without little doubt, considering the ...
Campaign buttons have been around as long as we have had campaigns. According to historical records, George Washington, America’s first president, wore the first political button in 1789 at his first Inauguration in New York. The wearing of political campaign buttons was in fat all about name recognition from the beginning. The first campaign buttons ...
All great leaders make a name for themselves. Eleanor Roosevelt is no exception. She held her first official position after her husband’s death, when president Truman appointed her to the United Nations. She was able to pave her own path through history as the First Lady, becoming known as the ‘World’s First Lady.’ Eleanor overcame ...
Candidates: Democratic Party: Woodrow Wilson (New Jersey) and Thomas Marshall (Indiana) Progressive Party: Theodore Roosevelt (New York) and Hiram Johnson (California) Republican Party: William Howard Taft (Ohio) and Nicholas Butler (New York) Socialist Party: Eugene Debs (Indiana) and Emil Seidel (Wisconsin) Election Results: Wilson and Marshall: 6.29 million popular votes, 435 electoral votes. Roosevelt and ...
Candidates: Republican Party: William Howard Taft (Ohio) and James Sherman (New York) Democratic Party: William Jennings Bryan (Nebraska) and John Kern (Indiana) Socialist Party: Eugene Debs (Indiana) and Benjamin Hanford (New York) Election Results: Taft and Sherman: 7.67 million popular votes, 321 electoral votes. Bryan and Kern: 6.40 million popular votes, 162 electoral votes. Debs ...
