Boston and Montreal were connected by railroad. The cities celebrated the completion of an interconnecting railroad through Canada and New Hampshire down to Boston with a three-day ...

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

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

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

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 Supreme Court has rejected an emergency appeal from Nevada’s Green Party seeking to include presidential candidate Jill ...

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 ...

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

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 ...