Interesting Election Resource

This resource may be of interest if you are a political junkie. The American Past allows you to look back upon past Presidential elections and related data. You can use the maps on the site to examine previous margins of victory, among other data, on a county by county level.

The neatest feature of this site is the interactive movies section. One interactive movie will take you through every Presidential election since 1840 and show you the results on a county by county basis. It takes about three to four minutes to watch the film. It is interesting to note how the north and south have flip-flopped over the last 150 years on supporting the Democrats and Republicans.

The website has been created by the Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond.

JWF