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I had not yet been born in 1948, a year fraught with challenges to the voting potential of Black Americans. Just three years after the United States and its allies had declared victory over fascism ...
The presidential election of 1896 was among the most hard-fought and complex in U.S. history, and Butte had a vested interest in it.
For more than a century after the United States’ founding, all presidential communications were handwritten, either by the chief executive or by an aide, and every signature was personally inscribed. ...
With the Supreme Court’s decision in this case, yet another dagger is aimed at the very heart of the Constitution.
A year ago today, I stood in a massive crowd and watched as an attempted assassin opened fire on then-candidate Donald Trump ...
Teddy and his ego started a new party – the Bull Moose Party.
The Anti-Masons were the first recognized third party. It was formed in 1828 in opposition to the Freemasons, a secret ...
The presidential campaign of 1896 was an emotional one—and much of the political maneuvering may look familiar to voters today. Akey player in the political drama was a man whose name is associated ...
A historian and populist firebrand who boasted about his brawls with soccer hooligans has narrowly won Poland’s presidential election, in a political upset that could torpedo the centrist ...
Romania's defeated hard-right presidential contender George Simion said late on Tuesday that he would challenge the ballot's result, alleging interference by France and Moldova, after a centrist ...
The 1896 election The battle over the monetary standard consumed the 1896 election. From the 1870s-1890s, debates over whether greenbacks, or paper currency, should be redeemable in gold or silver ...