The body of Tyler lays buried at Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, not far from the gravesite of President James Monroe, ...

Prior to becoming the 13th president, Fillmore practiced law in New York and served eight years in the House of ...

Pierce would go on to face his former superior officer, General Winfield Scott of the Whig party in the general election and ...

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

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

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

Contrary to Drutman’s claims, the sectarian Liberty Party refused to support even Joshua Giddings, the most radical antislavery Whig in the House. Nor did the collapse of the Whig Party emerge in any ...

I applaud Steelman’s call for an exorcism for the GOP, but I believe the party is beyond being capable of removing the stain of Trumpism. Just as the Whig Party of the mid-1800s was incapable 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 ...

Check out some fine art, tour a historic (and some say haunted) mansion or be part of a bicentennial celebration. There's a fall festival or outing for you in and around Springfield. Here's a ...

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