Richard Carwardine
Historian and academic (Rose Professor Emeritus of American History at Oxford) who provides expert analysis on the Civil War, Lincoln, and the 1864 election.
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Feb 24, 2026 • 16min
How the Civil War changed how we vote
Richard Carwardine, Oxford historian of Lincoln and the Civil War, explains how the 1864 presidential contest reshaped American voting. Short scenes cover Lincoln's risky Emancipation Proclamation, battlefield politics, soldiers and Black troops pushing the vote, wartime absentee and proxy voting innovations, and fierce fraud and turnout battles that decided the result.
