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Political history, told straight.
Political Timelines follows the history of how people govern themselves. The United States sits at the hub: its founding documents, its elections, its courts and the amendments that widened the vote. The rest of the world forms the spokes, region by region, each with a political history of its own.
How we write
History first. We write about events that have had time to settle, and we tell them through the documents, dates and people on the record.
Even-handed. Political Timelines takes no side in today's elections and endorses no party or candidate. Where history is still argued over, we say so and set out the main views rather than pick one.
On the record. We do not invent quotations, figures or details. When the record is uncertain, we say that it is uncertain.
Part of a network
Political Timelines is one of the sites of The Timeline Network, alongside timelines of cinema, comedy, film, music, science fiction, technology and UFOs.