Buttons and Ballots

Reading and Reference

Buttons and Ballots

Buttons and Ballots was an on-line magazine containing articles about people and causes from American political history. While written for political collectors, the articles of a general interest as well. Published beginning in 1996, the last issue appeared in 2001. Many of the best articles are still available on-line, and the links below will take you to them.

Complete Index

Partial List of Articles Available On-line:

• What to Collect?
• Displaying Political Items
• Preservation of Political Collectibles
• Brummagem: The Toughest Issue in the Hobby
• Prices: Another Tough Issue, Part I
• Prices: Another Tough Issue, Part II
• Ten Ways to Date Your Presidential Pins
• George R. Lunn: Man of Two Parties
• Landon Campaign: And Now for Something Completely Different
• The W.P.A. Outhouses
• Electoral College Oddities
• Of Captains and Piglets: 1940 Slogan Buttons
• K.O. the Kennedys! The Rubel Phillips for Governor Campaign
• New York's Liberal Party
• The Wizard of Oz: Tale of Bryan and Silver
• Old Fuss 'N' Feathers and the Election of 1852
• The 1934 Pacific Waterfront Strike
• Save 28 Innocent Men!
• Truman and his Screwy Porch
• Who Won the 1876 Election?
• For the Love of Backpapers
• Profile of the Farmer-Labor Party
• Focus on William McKinley
• Presidents Photographic Quiz: A Youthful Bunch
• Free Tom Mooney!
• The People's Party
• Up From the Streets: Al Smith of New York
• Tribute to Trigates
• Tribute to Tabs
• Dewey's Toughest Campaign: The 1944 Election
• Truman vs. MacArthur
• Politics has Gone to Pot
• President Nixon and the 1950 Pink Sheet
• Dump Nixon: The 1956 Herter Movement
• Dump Nixon: The 1952 Checkers Speech
• Profile of the American Labor Party
• Identifying Coattails Word Pins
• Hoover on the Bonus Army
• Grover Cleveland, the Buffalo Hangman
• Tracking Down the Sheriff
• The Nastiest Campaign Ever: The 1884 Election
• Robert LaFollette and the 1924 Progressives
• Farewell to Harold Stassen
• Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

Lots more B&B articles available; click here for complete Table of Contents and Index.

Here are two previously published articles from other publications:

• Three Socialist Pinbacks: Following the Paper Trail
• William C. Marland: West Virginia's Taxicab Governor

Candidates Index:

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Candidates for Governor:

California

Mississippi

New Jersey

New York

Ohio

Pennsylvania

Virginia

Washington

Identifying Mysterious Buttons: Guide to Acronyms and Symbols

Basic Glossary for the Political Collector

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