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Exhibition poster for Vote.<\/p><\/div>\n

No matter what the result, this year’s presidential election will be remembered as an historic one.\u00c2\u00a0 For more than two centuries Americans have participated in this very exercise and despite political and ideological divisions, engage each other in this important civil responsibility. In VOTE: Political Americana in Special Collections & Archives<\/em>, SC&A takes a look at the presidential election process of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries through archival materials held in its collections. The exhibit is located on the the first and second floor in the C-Wing and second floor of the A-Wing in Fenwick Library<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A smaller digital version of the exhibit can be found at: http:\/\/sca.gmu.edu\/exhibit\/vote.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No matter what the result, this year’s presidential election will be remembered as an historic one.\u00c2\u00a0 For more than two centuries Americans have participated in this very exercise and despite political and ideological divisions, engage each other in this important civil responsibility. In VOTE: Political Americana in Special Collections & Archives, SC&A takes a look […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-scrc-interest"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8Ep5i-bu","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":199,"url":"https:\/\/vault217.gmu.edu\/?p=199","url_meta":{"origin":712,"position":0},"title":"New Exhibit: Hidden Treasures in SC&A","author":"Bob Vay","date":"January 28, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"SC&A has recently installed a new exhibit entitled Hidden Treaures in Special Collections & Archives, which features unusual, unique or otherwise unconventional archival items. 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