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

Throughout the early days of Arkansas’ statehood leading up to the Civil War, a powerful group of Democrats known as the “The ...

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The Whig Party formed out of the National Republican Party, the leaders of which were John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay. They were nationalists, supported internal improvements and moral reforms ...

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The Whig Party formed out of the National Republican Party, the leaders of which were John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay. They were nationalists, supported internal improvements and moral reforms ...