Grinspan, Jon
National Museum of American History staff
Selected Publications
Article
Grinspan, Jon. 2022. "Father-Daughter Team Who Reformed America ." Smithsonian Magazine , November/December,
2022
Grinspan, Jon. 2021. "Five Best: Books on America's Violent 19th Century ." Wall Street Journal , May 7, 2021,
2021
Grinspan, Jon. 2021. "The Forgotten Precedent for Our 'Unprecedented' Political Insanity ." The Politico Magazine , Apr 24, 2021,
2021
Grinspan, Jon. 2021. "Voter turnout is low on purpose - and it has been for more than a century ." The Washington Post , Apr 29, 2021,
2021
Grinspan, Jon. 2021. "What We Did the Last Time We Broke America ." New York Times , Oct 29, 2021, New York, NY.
2021
Grinspan, Jon. 2020. "How to Steal an Election: Understanding past swindles can shed light on what we should worry about in 2020. " The New York Times , Oct 24, 2020,
2020
Grinspan, Jon. 2018. "Can Teenagers Save America? They’ve Done It Before ." The New York Times , Mar 26, 2018,
2018
Grinspan, Jon. 2017. "The High Price of Presidential Impeachment: President Andrew Johnson's impeachment shows how removing a president can inflame tensions in an already divided nation ." The Atlantic , May 30, 2017,
2017
Grinspan, Jon. 2016. "America's 'Violent Little Partisans' ." The Atlantic , May 8, 2016,
2016
Grinspan, Jon. 2016. "Closely Watched Ballots." The New York Times , Aug 24, 2016, A19.
2016
Grinspan, Jon. 2016. "Democracy Could Use A Drink." The New York Times , Nov 27, 2016, 8.
2016
Grinspan, Jon. 2016. "How 'Millennials' Ruined Democracy: Not the people-the term. How generational divisions have driven down voter turnout over the last century of American politics ." The Atlantic , Jul 30, 2016,
2016
Grinspan, Jon. 2016. "Virgins, Booze, and American Elections." The New York Times , Apr 10, 2016, SR2.
2016
Grinspan, Jon. 2016. "When Anger Trumped Progress." The New York Times , Jan 17, 2016, SR4.
2016
Grinspan, Jon. 2016. "When Political Rallies Were for Sex ." The Daily Beast , May 28, 2016,
2016
Grinspan, Jon. 2015. "D.I.Y. Education Before YouTube ." The New York Times , Jul 11, 2015,
2015
Grinspan, Jon. 2015. "To Stop an Endless Cycle of Corruption, History Says Fix the System, Not the Politician ." Smithsonian Magazine , Oct 27, 2015,
2015
Grinspan, Jon. 2015. "Was Abolitionism a Failure." The New York Times , New York.
2015
Grinspan, Jon. 2014. "Whigs Swigged Cider and Other Voter Indicators of the Past ." Smithsonian Magazine , Nov 3, 2014,
2014
Grinspan, Jon. 2011. "Miscellaneous Food in a Feverish Haste ." Gastronomica , 11, (3) 84–86. https://doi.org/10.1525/gfc.2011.11.3.84 .
2011
Grinspan, Jon. 2011. "Sorrowfully Amusing: The Popular Comedy of the Civil War ." The Journal of the Civil War Era , 1, (3) 313–338. https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2011.0057 .
2011
Grinspan, Jon. 2009. "Young Men for War: The Wide Awakes and Lincoln's 1860 Campaign ." Journal of American History , 96, (2) 357–378. https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/96.2.357 .
2009
Book
Grinspan, Jon. 2021. The Age of Acrimony: How Americans Fought to Fix Their Democracy, 1865-1915 . London, England: Bloomsbury Publishing.
2021
Grinspan, Jon. 2016. The virgin vote: how young Americans made democracy social, politics personal, and voting popular in the nineteenth century . Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469627342.001.0001 .
2016
Chapter
Grinspan, Jon. 2015. "A Birthday like None Before: Turning Twenty-One in the Age of Popular Politics." In Age in America: The Colonial Era to the Present . Field, Corinne T. and Syrett, Nicholas L., editors. 86–102. NYU Press. https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479870011.003.0005 .
2015
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