Since at least 1896, The New York Times has published what is now the most iconic type of election map — a shaded choropleth. If you know your geography, you can quickly identify who won which ...

For us today, looking back at 1896, nothing jumps out more than the strangeness of the election map. McKinley won the East and West coasts and the Rust Belt. Bryan won the South, the plains and ...

The battle over the monetary standard consumed the 1896 election. From the 1870s-1890s, debates over whether greenbacks, or paper currency, should be redeemable in gold or silver ebbed and flowed.

The election of 1896 was a realigning election. It assured Republican dominance in Washington for decades, until the election of Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1932.

The familiar U.S. electoral map — with the Democrats winning in the Northeast, upper Midwest, and West Coast, and the Republicans dominating in the south and center of the country — is recent.

As noted by the National Geographic, while there had been winners, and of course losers, in presidential elections for a century, it wasn't until defeated Democrat William Jennings Bryan wrote to ...

To broaden the discussion, consider another by-gone campaign—Election 1896. In that year, Republican candidate William McKinley defeated Democrat William Jennings Bryan 51% to 47%. In the ...

Event Summary. In this Bradley Lecture, Karl Rove discussed the uniqueness of the 1896 US presidential election, William McKinley’s admirable character, and the reasons for his successful campaign.

Republican consultant Karl Rove, when not advising the super political action committee he helped found or commenting on politics, has been researching a presidential election that has long ...

The battle over the monetary standard consumed the 1896 election. From the 1870s-1890s, debates over whether greenbacks, or paper currency, should be redeemable in gold or silver ebbed and flowed.