There is an open space for a significant new, centrist political party, created by the pull of the progressive and Donald ...

If you're a Republican — or just interested in the history of one of the United States ... States — sparked a political ...

While the Whig-Clio watch party was the largest election night gathering on campus ... from all political backgrounds could ...

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A longtime conservative, alienated by Trumpism, tries to come to terms with life on the moderate edge of the Democratic Party.

But we should also remember Harrison and the election of 1840 for what they can teach us about how the two-party system works, and doesn’t. Harrison was the first of only two Whigs ever elected ...

Ford is the only person in US history to serve as both president ... was William Henry Harrison's vice president for the Whig Party in 1840. The Whigs were the other major party alongside the ...

On Oct. 24, 1896, William Jennings Bryan, the Democratic Party nominee for President, spoke to what the Quincy Weekly Whig called a “vast multitude” in appearances at Courthouse Square, Washington ...

The Democratic Party faces existential questions after Donald Trump’s resounding victory. One of the first: Who will lead it?

It’s the fifth time in U.S. history that’s happened ... in three Northern states and enabled the other major party, the Whigs, to win the presidency. And in 1856, former Whig President ...

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