Truxal Library Special Topic Guide: Election and Voting, Fall 2022
Truxal library encourages everyone to practice their voting rights!
Exercise your right to vote!
The right to vote in the United States has not always been available for all citizens. Exercising this hard-won right is important for a thriving democracy. This section of the guide highlights resources that tell the story of voting rights in the United States.
Selected eBooks
The Embattled Vote in America: From the Founding to the Present –by ISBN: 9780674972360Publication Date: 2018-09-10
Votes That Count and Voters Who Don't: How Journalists Sideline Electoral Participation (Without Even Knowing It) –by ISBN: 9780271081250Publication Date: 2018-08-28
Voting and Political Representation in America: Issues and Trends [2 Volumes] –by ISBN: 9781440860850Publication Date: 2020-02-24
The Voting Rights Act: Historical context and Associated Issues and Trends. –by ISBN: 9781633219755Publication Date: 2014-01-01
Selected Books
100% Democracy: The Case for Universal Voting –by Call Number: JF1031 .D563 2022ISBN: 9781620976777Publication Date: 2022-03-22
A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy –by Call Number: HD6508 .M228 2020ISBN: 9780062908599Publication Date: 2020-01-07- The Embattled Vote in America: from the Founding to the President –by Call Number: JK1846 .L53 2018ISBN: 9780674972360Publication Date: 2018-09-10
Give Us the Ballot: the Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America –by Call Number: JK1846 .B47 2015ISBN: 9780374158279Publication Date: 2015-08-04
The Great Suppression: Voting rights, Corporate Cash, and the Conservative Assault on Democracy –by Call Number: JC573.2 .U6 R67 2016ISBN: 9781101905760Publication Date: 2016-08-02
A Lab of One's Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War –by Call Number: Q130 .F365 2018ISBN: 9780198794981Publication Date: 2018-03-01
One Person, No Vote: How voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy –by Call Number: JK1924 .A54 2018ISBN: 9781635571370Publication Date: 2018-09-11
Uncounted: The Crisis of Voter Suppression in America –by Call Number: KF4891 .D36 2020ISBN: 9781479862351Publication Date: 2020-01-28
The Vote Collectors: The True Story of the Scamsters, Politicians, and Prechers behind the Nation's Greatest Electoral Fraud –by Call Number: JK1994 .G73 2021ISBN: 9781469665566Publication Date: 2021-11-16
The Voting Rights War: the NAACP and the Ongoing Struggle for Justice –by Call Number: JK1924 .B76 2017ISBN: 0810896249Publication Date: 2017-11-16
Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College? –by Call Number: JK529 .K47 2020ISBN: 9780674660151Publication Date: 2020-07-31
Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote –by Call Number: JK1896 .W37 2019ISBN: 9780674986688Publication Date: 2019-05-06
The Woman's Hour: the Great Fight to Win the Vote –by Call Number: JK1896 .W45 2018ISBN: 9780525429722Publication Date: 2018-03-06
The Year of Voting Dangerously –by Call Number: JK526 2016 .D69 2016ISBN: 9781455539260Publication Date: 2016-09-13
Selected Web Sources
- Introduction to Federal Voting Rights LawsUnited States Justice Department's Civil RIghts Division's overview to the 1965 Voting Rights Act
- Selma to Montgomery: 50 Years LaterOnline exhibit about the Civil Rights fight for voting rights.
- 20 Suffragists To Know for 2020National Park Service exhibit highlighting lesser known suffragists who enabled the passing of the 19th amendment, which gave women the right to vote.
Database Best Bets
- Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new windowArticles on all topics from journals, magazines, and newspapers
- Daily Life through History This link opens in a new windowEntries from books and reference books, like encyclopedias and dictionaries, covering ancient to modern history
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