Seth Kaller, Inc.

Inspired by History

Election

ElectionTo celebrate this historic election season we have put together a unique collection of documents that reflect the history of our democracy and the election process.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
# Article Title
1 "I deserve your support...."
2 A Broadside Critical of Andrew Johnson’s Southern Sympathies
3 Alexander Stephens, Future Confederate Vice President, Rants Against Congress Refunding Andrew Jackson’s War of 1812 Fine
4 An 1864 Campaign Broadside Aimed At Moderate Democrats
5 An Early Lincoln Campaign Biography
6 Charles Sumner Discusses the Emerging Duty of the United States in Promoting Human Rights & World Peace Evoking the Declaration of Independence and Championing Louis Kossuth and his Exploits
7 Complete Report on the Burr-Hamilton Duel, Ten Days Later
8 Counting the Vote in 1876 – Florida’s First Election Fiasco
9 Daniel Sickles, Denying Calls for a Dictator to Replace Lincoln
10 Former President Franklin Pierce Urges His Young Nephew Studying at Princeton:“Do Not for a Day Relax Your Labor”
11 Frederick A. Aiken Urging Frémont to Run Against Lincoln
12 George B. McClellan’s 1864 Presidential Aspirations Are Mocked
13 George McClellan: War Candidate Running on a Peace Platform
14 Harrison Gray Otis On The Infamous Hartford Convention
15 Hawaii Statehood - Honolulu Star-Bulletin
16 Jackie Robinson Reflects on the Importance of “the Negro Vote” in Nixon’s Loss to Kennedy
17 John F. Kennedy Invites College President to White House Meeting on: “those Aspects of the Nation’s Civil Rights Problem that Relate to our Schools”
18 John F. Kennedy Seeks to Censure a Priest
19 John Tyler Mulls Remarriage in the White House
20 Prelude to Dollar Diplomacy: President Harrison Piqued at “these little Central American States”
21 Taking the Copper-Heads to Task in 1864:“Another Rebel Raid (on the Ballot Box) repulsed with great slaughter…”
22 Teddy Roosevelt Aghast that Americans seem “completely taken in” by Wilson
23 The Congress that Passed the Thirteenth Amendment
24 The Fight for Freedom of the Press in America
25 Theodore Roosevelt and Family Sacrifice in World War I
26 Theodore Roosevelt Keeps Lincoln Alive Against the Party Machine
27 Warren G. Harding’s Return to Normalcy – and Isolationism – after World War I
28 William Beach Lawrence, Discontent with Gilded Age Presidential Politics and the Influence of “the negro vote”
29 Women’s Suffrage Leaders Lobby for a Constitutional Amendment
30 “Men indeed ought to exert themselves in Defence of their Liberties…”