I'm Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, and welcome

to We The People, a weekly show of constitutional debate.

The National Constitution Center is a nonpartisan nonprofit chartered by Congress

to increase awareness and understanding of the Constitution among the American people.

The coronavirus pandemic will present challenges for voting in November.

On today's episode, we'll look back at past elections during other crises in American history.

How were they handled? What were their outcomes? during other crises in American history.

How were they handled?

What were their outcomes and what lessons can they teach us

for the election of 2020?

I'm joined by two of America's leading experts

on voting and the history of elections.

Jonathan White is Associate Professor of American Studies at Christopher Newport University

and is the author or editor of eight books, includingmancipation the Union Army and the

re-election of Abraham Lincoln which was just released in paperback. He serves on

the boards of the directors of the Abraham Lincoln Institute and the John

L. Now the third center for Civil War history at the University of Virginia.

John, thank you so much for joining.

Thank you so much for having me.

And Kim Whaley is a professor of law

at the University of Baltimore School of Law,

where she teaches and rights on the Constitution,

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