Historian and professor Susan Schulten stumbled onto an 1880 electoral map in her research last year, buried in an 1883 book called Scribner's Statistical Atlas of the United States.The Library of ...

The first map of how the U.S. voted came out in 1880. More than a century later, the country is as divided as it was then. But it doesn't have to be that way.

A map of the results of the 1880 presidential election revolutionized the way we visualize the spatial aspect of politics. Thank Bush v. Gore for easy-to-understand election results. The aftermath ...

This map showing electoral results from the 1880 presidential election may have been the first of its kind. Map courtesy Library of Congress. The History of Election Maps.

The good folks at Handsome Atlas have scanned the entirety of the 1880 Statistical Atlas of the United States, and look what’s in there: No, that’s not from David Leip. That’s a very ...