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SUSSEX COUNTY -- With its unusual twists and turns, the 2016 presidential election will undoubtedly be recorded in future history books as "that election." In Sussex County, however, the 1868 ...

The Constitution makes no mention of political parties. In 1868, national party conventions were a relatively new concept. Senators were not chosen by the people in a general election, much less ...

In 1868, at the height of the Reconstruction, the pressing issue was Black male suffrage. Every election season in the United States revolves around a set of issues—health care, foreign affairs ...

No Ohioan has been a presidential nominee since, but Ohio earlier dominated the presidential landscape. Over the period 1868 to 1920, Ohioans won nine of the fourteen presidential elections: two ...

In the 1868 presidential election, Republican Ulysses S. Grant won the office with the slogan, "Let Us Have Peace." Republicans also won a majority in Congress.

On this day in 1868, the United States held its first presidential election in the aftermath of the Civil War. Since Texas, Mississippi and Virginia had yet to be re-admitted into the Union, they ...

Over the period 1868 to 1920, there were 14 presidential elections. Nine were won by people who were either born or resided in Ohio — two each by Ulysses S. Grant (1868, 1872) and William ...

Ryland Randolph, the Klansman and fiery publisher of Tuscaloosa’s Independent Monitor, finally went too far in the weeks leading up to the November 1868 presidential election. A political ...

Here's a terrific visualization Pete Warden at OpenHeatMap of how the Democratic presidential nominee fared in every state in every presidential election from 1868 to 2008. And it takes only 19 ...