With the November election finally coming ... Yet, one “quiet” form of political commentary has been around for centuries and still endures. Political cartoons — graphic editorial satires ...

Wade had scavenged a one-of-a-kind relic of American political history ... But in the absence of fully developed parties, the election of 1800 quickly devolved into a cutthroat contest.

But political wrangling over who would be the next president pushed the nation to its first constitutional crisis as partisan politics reared its ugly head. The 1800 election was a showdown ...

Steven F. Hayward is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and author of "The Age of Reagan: The Conservative Counter-Revolution, 1980-1989." Updated April 20, 2011, 4:55 PM The ...

Since our country's first Presidential election in 1788 ... that his opponent Grover Cleveland had allegedly fathered: Political cartoons soon accompanied the campaign slurs.