{"id":3994,"date":"2016-07-20T22:21:35","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T02:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/wp\/?p=3994"},"modified":"2017-05-01T15:22:38","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T19:22:38","slug":"a-timeline-of-political-parties-in-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/2016\/07\/20\/a-timeline-of-political-parties-in-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"A timeline of political parties in the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/extras\/political_parties_poster.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/beta.newagrarian.com\/dw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/political-parties-linear-sm.jpg\" alt=\"low-res: political parties timeline\" width=\"1024\" height=\"144\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5693\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/political-parties-linear-sm.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/political-parties-linear-sm-300x42.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/political-parties-linear-sm-768x108.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the more difficult things about teaching nineteenth-century U.S. history is explaining the rapid and complex shifts in political parties. The Democrats of 1850 aren&#8217;t like the Democrats of today, and the Democrats of 1800 aren&#8217;t even the same party; though they faced off against Federalists, Whigs, and Republicans, those parties didn&#8217;t always draw on the same issues or demographics \u2014 and don&#8217;t even get me started with the Know-Nothings. A visualization would help, but there wasn&#8217;t one, so I created this one during my work with LEARN NC at UNC-Chapel Hill. You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/extras\/political_parties_poster.pdf\">view it here as a poster-sized PDF<\/a>, and it&#8217;s licensed Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND), so share and use it freely!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A poster-sized timeline showing the shifts in demographics, allegiances, and key issues from 1789 to 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3996,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[423],"tags":[583],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8I1ci-12q","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3994"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3994"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5695,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3994\/revisions\/5695"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}