Jon Grinspan

Jon Grinspan is a historian at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History, in the Division of Political History. He is the author of The Virgin Vote: How Young Americans Made Democracy Social, Politics Personal, and Voting Popular in the Nineteenth Century.

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When Political Rallies Were for Sex

In the Victorian era, political parties needed a way to get young people engaged in political activities, and young people needed a place to meet for romance.

Jon Grinspan