Historic Firsts: The 2024 Presidential Election

What is the significance of the Nov. 5, 2024 election in US history and politics? What should voters pay attention to as they vote? Three distinguished professors from the University of Connecticut will discuss these issues and answer questions about the upcoming election.
Panelists: Evelyn M. Simien is Professor of Political Science and the Director of the Africana Studies Institute at the University of Connecticut. She is the author of Historic Firsts: How Symbolic Empowerment Changes U.S. Politics (Oxford University Press, 2016), and the editor of Historic Firsts in U.S. Elections: Trailblazing Candidates in Gubernatorial, Congressional, and Mayoral Campaigns (Routledge, 2022). Manisha Sinha is the James L. and Shirley A. Draper Chair in American History at the University of Connecticut. She is the author of The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition (Yale University Press, 2017) and The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920 (Liveright, 2024). Chris Vials is a Professor of English at the University of Connecticut and the author of Haunted by Hitler: Liberals, the Left, and the Fight Against Fascism in the United States (University of Massachusetts Press, 2014). He also has co-edited The Antifascism Reader (Verso Books, 2020).
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Sponsored by the Uconn American Studies Program, the Department of Critical and Social Inquiry, the English Department, The Africana Studies Institute, the History Department, and the Department of Political Science at UConn.