[Voting]: [Hart, Albert Bushnell]:

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[COLLECTION OF RESEARCH MATERIAL RELATING TO THE HISTORY OF VOTING IN THE UNITED STATES, COMPILED BY NOTED HISTORIAN ALBERT BUSHNELL HART, WITH HUNDREDS OF EXTRACTS, CLIPPINGS, AND CITATIONS, PLUS ... A significant collection of research material on the history of the ballot in the United States, compiled by Albert Bushnell Hart, a prominent historian, writer, and editor based at Harvard University. Hart was a part of the first generation of professionally trained historians in America, described as "The Grand Old Man" of American History by Samuel Eliot Morison. A prolific author, Hart wrote numerous volumes on American government; the material in this collection was likely assembled for one such work. The present collection includes over one hundred magazine extracts, book and newspaper clippings, and numerous citations, as well as forty-four pamphlets and ephemeral items, all organized into four folders.Most of the material relates to voting in the United States, though some foreign material is also present. One folder is dedicated to the principles and history of ballots; another is dedicated to absentee and mail-in voting; the third is devoted to the "Short Ballot"; and the fourth covers the "Australian Ballot," also known as the secret ballot. Each clipping or extract is accompanied by a citation in Hart's hand, possibly in an effort to produce a comprehensive bibliography of writings on these topics. Hart also often underlines passages in the extracts.Among the pamphle

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