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Carolyn Dupont

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Carolyn Renée Dupont is a professor in history at Eastern Kentucky University. Her research focuses on American religion and African American history. She is the author of Mississippi Praying: Southern White Evangelicals and the Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1975 and serves as the Book Review Editor for the Journal of Southern Religion. Distorting Democracy: The Forgotten History of the Elector College—and Why it Matters Today, her most recent book, was published in September 2024.

Nov. 4, 2024

The History of the Electoral College

At the end of August 1787, after three long months of debate and deliberation, the Constitutional Convention had neared the end of its work. They were poised at that time to write into the Constitution that the President of …