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Allan Lichtman

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Allan Lichtman graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Brandeis, received his PhD from Harvard University, and is a professor and formerly chair of the Department of History at American University in Washington, D.C. His six books include Your Family History, Prejudice and the Old Politics: The Presidential Election of 1928, Ecological Inference, and The Thirteen Keys to the Presidency. He has updated the keys series with The Keys to the White House, 2008 Edition. The Keys system correctly predicted the popular vote outcome in every presidential election from 1984 to 2004. His new book White Protestant Nation: The Rise of the American Conservative Movement is published by Grove/Atlantic.

Dr. Lichtman has provided commentary for all major U.S. television and radio networks, the Voice of America, and many foreign broadcast companies, including BBC and CBC.
He has published more than 200 scholarly and popular articles that have appeared in such publications as the American Historical Review, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the Journal of Law and Politics, New Republic, the Washington Monthly, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Christian Science Monitor, and the Los Angeles Times.

Dr. Lichtman has been an expert witness in more than 75 federal voting rights and redistricting cases. As an expert for the U. S. Commission on Civil Rights he discovered the vast disparity in rates at which officials rejected ballots cast by blacks and whites in Flordia's 2000 presidential election. He has worked on numerous cases for the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and has worked for such civil rights organizations as the NAACP, the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education Fund, the American Civil Liberties Union, the LDF, and the Southern Poverty Law Center. He has also been a consultant and expert witness for numerous state and local governments.

He received the 1992-93 Scholar/Teacher award, American University's highest faculty award. Dr. Lichtman's biography is published in Who's Who in America and Who's Who in the World .

www.american.edu/cas/hist/faculty/lichtman.htm

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