Throughout the relatively short history of the US, it’s become a tradition that presidents have their coffins draped in the ...

John Brough founded The Cincinnati Enquirer in 1841. But his victory in the strange Ohio governor’s race during the Civil War ...

Everyone knows the two major players in American politics: the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. At all elections ...

The presidential office was first envisioned to be more like a clerk's job, and in its earliest incarnation, it was almost ...

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — People began betting Thursday on which political party would win control of Congress in the ...

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.” — ...

The United States has long conceived of itself as a ... Much of this early success was due to the demise of the Whig Party, weakened by internal dissent over national issues like slavery.

Eric and Eliot provide their thumbnail review of the Trump-Harris debate and then welcome their special guest Lindsay ...

Boston experienced election fever 184 years ago when the Whig Convention came to town. The Bishop of Boston Benedict Joseph Fenwick was in attendance and wrote about the hubbub brought by thousands of ...

The Campaign of 1852 left the Whig party overthrown and prostrate. In such a condition of utter political bankruptcy were we, that many gravely insisted we should never "resume," while others ...

too - that President Barack Obama was not a US citizen. Getty Images Millard was initially vice-president to Zachary Taylor (L) Fillmore later joined the Whig Party at a time of mounting hostility ...

throwing the choice to the US House of Representatives. The selection of the Whig on each state's ballot was left up to the local party. Had the gambit worked, one could imagine the system of ...