This is American History TV's Lectures in History podcast.

This week, a class on the 1864 presidential election that pitted Abraham Lincoln against George McClellan.

It's taught by Jonathan White, a professor at Christopher Newport University.

All right, good morning, everyone.

Today we're going to be talking about the election of 1864.

And I've put on the screen here four ballots from that election.

And I want you to look at these ballots and think about what you see.

What do these ballots look like?

How are they different from ballots that we use today?

Any ideas? Kim.

There's a lot of patriotic symbols for us today on the ballots. It's just the names.

And then also with the candidates they have which state that they're from.

And on our presidential ballots, I don't think we have those.

Good, that's right.

So there's a lot of patriotic symbols that you see, and also they list the state where the candidates are from.

Of course, the Constitution makes it so that you can't have a presidential candidate and a vice presidential candidate from the same state.

So in case you weren't sure, they make sure you know.

George McClellan, the Democrat is from

New Jersey, George Pendleton, the vice presidential candidates from Ohio. What else do you see on these

ballots? What else jumps out at you? Jeremiah? On the top, they have that banner on the top,

whereas like today they're very systematic with just like the bubble and the name,

I guess for computer reasons, like they put through the scanner today.

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