The animal mascots that represent the Democrats and Republicans were created over a century ago with color-coding scheme a ...

Just how witless is his notion that the Civil War was justly avoidable? In 1860 Lincoln and the Republican Party had pledged to prohibit slavery in all states newly admitted to the Union.

November 6, Abraham Lincoln wins presidency By The Associated Press Today is Wednesday, Nov. 6, the 311th day of 2024. There ...

With the world's oldest democracy voting to elect its 47th President, let us take a quick trip down American history to ...

The Southerners were also terrified by the 1860 Republican Party platform, which they denounced in frenzied language similar to contemporary progressive critics of Project 2025. The Tarboro ...

The appeal is an appalling document, which exposes both the political bankruptcy of American liberalism and the deplorable ...

On Nov. 6, 1860, former Illinois congressman Abraham Lincoln of the Republican Party was elected President of the United ...

The leaders of the Democracy believe, or affect to believe, that the triumph of the Republican Party in the elections of to-morrow will be followed by the dissolution of the American Union.

In 2012, U.S. President Barack Obama defeated Republican challenger Mitt Romney to win a second term. Federal finance reports ...

Early in the 1860 election, a core of young clerks in Connecticut formed a club to help campaign for the antislavery Republican Party. They happened to live in the state with the highest literacy ...

If there’s any takeaway from our 1890s forebears, it’s that no matter how intense an election feels, life always goes on.

Backstabbing and corruption are often common features of politics, so much so that many people are repelled by the entire process. The obsessive quest for power sometimes turns upstanding citizens ...