History 3442: Truman’s First Term
Documents: Truman’s veto message–Taft-Hartley Act (1947)
articles (e-mailed)
- Robert Mickey, “The Beginning of the End for Authoritarian Rule in America: Smith v. Allwright and the Abolition of the White Primary in the Deep South, 1944–1948,” Studies in American Political Development(2008).
- Richard Fried, “‘Operation Polecat’: Thomas E. Dewey, the 1948 Election, and the Origins of McCarthyism,”Journal of Policy History (2010).
1948 presidential election map:
KC Johnson 