{"id":40307,"date":"2025-02-11T16:30:12","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T22:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/und-today\/?p=40307"},"modified":"2025-02-11T17:00:47","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T23:00:47","slug":"digital-press-at-und-revises-expands-modern-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/und-today\/2025\/02\/digital-press-at-und-revises-expands-modern-classic\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Press at UND revises, expands modern classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u2018Picking the President: Understanding the Electoral College\u2019 offers thorough understanding of how Americans elect their president<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thedigitalpress.org\/Picking-the-President-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-40308 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/und-today\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/02\/picking-the-president-cover-web.jpg\" alt=\"Cover of picking the president, understanding the electoral college, edited by Eric Burin\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/und-today\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/02\/picking-the-president-cover-web.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/und-today\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/02\/picking-the-president-cover-web-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/und-today\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/02\/picking-the-president-cover-web-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Have you ever wondered why the Electoral College is so complicated and unusual, and why the United States adopted this way of conducting presidential elections?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPicking the President: Understanding the Electoral College\u201d provides an expansive view of the U.S. electoral system by showcasing brief essays by historians, political scientists, legal experts and other scholars, as well as a massive selection of original documents from the Constitutional Convention, all of which shed light on the high-stakes debates surrounding the selection of the chief executive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis volume is a revised and expanded version of the original \u2018Picking the President,\u2019 which appeared in 2017,\u201d volume editor and UND Professor of History Eric Burin explains. \u201cThat book turned out to be successful enough to warrant a follow-up that would continue to engage people\u2019s curiosity about the Electoral College, promote understanding of the subject and fan further interest in it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Expanded and Revised Edition is three times the size of the original volume. Over the past eight years, the first edition of \u201cPicking the President\u201d became a surprise best seller, with hundreds of paper copies in circulation and garnering thousands of digital downloads. During that time, the book\u2019s editor, Eric Burin, continued to dig deeper into the history of the Electoral College and modern attitudes toward the institution.<\/p>\n<p>By 2024, Burin was ready to produce a Revised and Expanded Edition of the original classic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Revised and Expanded Edition has three new sections,\u201d Burin explains in his new introduction. \u201cThe first section includes all the essays from first edition of \u2018Picking the President,\u2019 which were written in the aftermath of the 2016 election. The second section features a wide-ranging variety of essays on the Electoral College which platform new voices and present new perspectives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast but not least, the book includes a magnificent collection of historical resources on the topic, making it appropriate for the interested public and suitable for use in the civics or American history classroom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Burin makes clear that this new edition of the book has the same goal as the first: to better illuminate the Electoral College. \u201cThe essays provide multiple viewpoints on the Electoral College while the historical resources empower readers to develop their own ideas on the subject,\u201d he sayd<\/p>\n<p>Like all books from The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota, the revised and expanded edition of \u201cPicking the President: Understanding the Electoral College\u201d is available as <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/thedigitalpress.org\/Picking-the-President-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a free digital download<\/a><\/strong> and as <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Picking-President-Understanding-Electoral-College\/dp\/1966360029\/ref=monarch_sidesheet_title\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a low-cost paperback from Amazon.com.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Picking the President: Understanding the Electoral College\u2019 offers thorough understanding of how Americans elect their president<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":40308,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[16,1125],"class_list":["post-40307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-und","tag-arts-sciences","tag-learning"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - 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