Early voter turnout surged, with 33.2% more ballots cast during the early voting period compared to the May election's early voting period. That bodes well for final overall turnout, which county ...

In the fall of 1856, outraged Northerners elected scores ... even if it required violence and election fraud to make it happen. “If we win,” Atchison told his thugs, “we can carry slavery ...

In American history, rule by force and fiat often backfires. The president may have forgotten this. The rest of us can’t afford to.

The Know Nothing nickname came from the refusal of members to discuss the party in public or even to acknowledge its existence.

As a Massachusetts senator during the years leading up to the Civil War, Sumner was a passionate and committed abolitionist.

Janet Napolitano, President Obama’s homeland security secretary, announced a study of right-wing violence like the Oklahoma City terror bombing. But after Rush Limbaugh furiously ...

Cheers erupted among the thousands of people gathered on the steps of Victoria Parliament as the Yoorrook Justice ...

Alfred J. Anderson played a monumental role in local and state efforts supporting the abolition of slavery on a national ...

The stocks in this article have caught Wall Street’s attention in a big way, with price targets implying returns above 20%.

The gap between Lisa Field and Larry Quintal has narrowed to 17 votes in the election to fill Carol Doherty’s old State Rep ...

Nearly 90 percent of voters did not cast ballots on Sunday, one of the lowest turnouts in any federal election since Mexico became a democracy. By Emiliano Rodríguez Mega James Wagner and Simon ...

The Justice Department filed a lawsuit Tuesday against North Carolina election officials targeting the registration records of potentially hundreds of thousands of registered voters in the state.