America’s Six Most Peculiar Presidential Elections

Program Type:

History & Genealogy, Lecture, Online

Age Group:

Adult

Registration for this event will be open from August 22, 2024 @ 9:30am to October 9, 2024 @ 7:00pm.

Event Description

Join historian Martin H. Levinson to discuss America’s six most peculiar presidential elections. These elections, held between 1800 and 1948, helped set the stage for the quirks in our modern-day presidential campaigns. They show, to paraphrase Pearl S. Buck, if you want to understand the present you have to search the past.

This program will be presented as a Zoom meeting. The URL for the "meeting" will be emailed to all registrants upon completion of registration and also one day prior to start time.

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