elections Archives - The American Scholar

Five Dollars and a Pork Chop Sandwich

By Stephanie Bastek | 02/01/2016 |

Read an excerpt from Mary Frances Berry’s new book about vote buying

How to Have an Election

By Jill McCorkle | 11/10/2015 |

First thing you do is lock the candidates in a room

The Most Important Election in History

By Christopher Clausen | 09/01/2008

Is it possible to elect a president without invoking that phrase?