Edward Ranson

Electing the President, 1896

Edward Ranson on the house race that split and defined a fin-de-siecle US.

Senators Thomas J. Walsh (Montana) and Pat Harrison (Mississippi) on the podium at the Democratic National Convention, New York, 25 June 1924. Library of Congress. Public Domain.

‘Snarling Roughhouse’: The 1924 Democratic Convention

A 17-day political dogfight at the 1924 Democratic National Convention revealed the faultlines in American society, from prohibition to Protestantism to the shadow of the Ku Klux Klan.