The Making of the US President

The Making of the US President
These videos were created for our short online course, The Making of the US President: A Short History in Five Elections. This course ran from 2016 to 2019 on Coursera. While the full content of the course is no longer available, we have made the videos from the course free and open so you can work through the resources in your own time.

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The videos in this playlist explore presidential elections in historical perspective, via five case studies. It tells the story of key campaigns in US history, and by doing so it investigates how politics changed over time—and how understanding the past sheds light on the current campaign. From the arrival of "dirty politics" to the impact of the "digital revolution," the course looks at the historical background to some of the key phenomena that shaped the controversy-laden campaign of 2016.

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