If you think this year’s political campaigning is contentious, you might be amazed by Cincinnati’s 1884 city election. It was a real riot. In 1884, Cincinnati was ruled by a mostly Democratic ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Historians Elizabeth Leonard and Earle Shettleworth discussed the 1884 presidential election between Grover Cleveland and Jame G. Blaine. The ...

FILE – President Grover Cleveland poses for a photo. Cleveland won the 1884 election. The Gazette endorsed his opponent James … ...

If you think the 2016 campaign was rough, check out the 1884 election. The poet Walt Whitman was watching, and he wrote a poem called “Election Day November 1884." ...

When Grover Cleveland clinched the Democratic nomination and faced an allegation of misconduct, he wrote up a new political playbook.

On Nov. 5, President-elect Donald Trump became only the second president in U.S. history to win two nonconsecutive terms in office. Thus emerged one of the election’s biggest casualties ...

The 1884 election is best known for its mudslinging with each candidate accusing the other of scandalous behavior, which moved the conversation toward character.

(RNS) — A preacher trafficked in anti-Catholicism at a rally near Madison Square Garden 140 years earlier, almost to the day.

That was Grover Cleveland, who served as the 22nd president after the 1884 election, and as the 24th president after the campaign of 1892.

Historians Elizabeth Leonard and Earle Shettleworth discussed the 1884 presidential election between Grover Cleveland and Jame G. Blaine. The election and the campaign was significant for the ...

But only one other American president did it the way Trump will — with a gap of four years between terms.That was Grover Cleveland, who served as the 22nd president after the 1884 election, and ...