In 1868, Arkansas held its first congressional elections since ... John Edwards, also a Republican, challenged Boles in the ...

When you read this we will have just passed our nation’s quadrennial exercise of voting for the President of the United ...

President-elect Donald Trump's return follows the trail of another American president who rebounded from defeat to victory and then four years of unchecked power.

America went to war against Great Britain to assert its rights as an independent, sovereign nation, and to attempt the ...

The presidential election of 1788, the first under the newly minted Constitution, was unusual and even unique in ways that ...

In 1864, amid the U.S. Civil War, Abraham Lincoln was elected to his second term as president. He was assassinated five ...

Márquez, the chief justice of the Colorado Supreme Court who supported the majority decision that Trump was indeed an ...

On this Election Day and in the days leading up to it, thousands of people have been visiting suffragist Susan B. Anthony’s ...

Ethiopia 1868, Tewodros II is dead... Paving the way for Emperor Yohannes IV, and Menelik II. Who will change the way European powers view Africa forever. Menelik will go on to use political tactics ...

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

On almost all of the 20 or so measurements we’ve examined, Donald Trump’s White House record on the economy was far superior ...

There’s a snowstorm and they can’t leave for seven days. Who do they eat first? Mark Twain’s 1868 short story, “Cannibalism in the Cars,” takes place in a train, not a bar, but there’s still ...