The first article, written by Gettysburg College history professor and former Concord Monitor journalist Michael Birkner, explores the role of the first nationally significant New Hampshire presidential primary—and of Sherman Adams in particular—in the recruiting of Dwight D. Eisenhower as the Republican candidate in 1952.

Next, Associate Professor of Politics Dante Scala, who has recently moved from Saint Anselm College to the University of New Hampshire, traces the growing influence of reform-minded Democrats in college communities and rural towns in relation to the more traditional working-class Democrats of the state’s industrial cities.

Finally, Peter Haskell Burr, an independent political researcher and analyst, presents informed advice for would-be presidential candidates, based on historical facts and statistics but presented in an entertaining way.