Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! An introduction to the 1860 election is featured. Author and history professor Rachel Shelden talked about the issue of slavery at the time, the ...

Although, the Democrats (DNC) and the Republicans (GOP) are presently the two dominant political parties in the USA, our country has additional political parties. These include the Green Party, the ...

Days after Buchanan took office, the United States Supreme Court handed down one of its most infamous rulings - the Dred ...

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

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The Republican party, as such, has never been committed to it, nor have those among them who accept it as abstractly and theoretically true, ever sought to give it practical effect. No political ...

When the US Constitution was written in 1787, the Electoral College was created to pick the US president using a majority ...

In the decades following Abraham Lincoln’s nomination in 1860, Chicago became ... Hubert Humphrey, won the party’s nomination before later losing to Republican Richard Nixon in the 1968 ...

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In 1860, the Democratic convention splintered over slavery and the Northern faction of the party reconvened in Baltimore ... In 1940, the Republican convention was swayed as shouts of “We ...

I’m Paul Kane, senior congressional correspondent and columnist for The Washington Post, and my guest today is Dana Milbank. He is an author. He is an opinion columnist here at The Post and, most ...