By Burt Constable The pandemic has put us in the habit of adding the word "unprecedented" to everything. But next week's contentious, life-altering and sure-to-be-ugly election is not ...

The presidential election of 2016 is certainly fraught. The electorate is divided; the invective is flying. A political novice, who some have branded a megalomaniacal racist with no knowledge of ...

Describe the “tumultuous” political situation during the 1860 presidential election. What main issue defined the Republican party? How did they differ from abolitionists?

During the election year of 1860, a group of young men sought change. They identified themselves as “Wide Awakes.” In the collections of Pamplin Historical Park and the National Museum of the Civil ...

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“This is an election of a kind we have never seen before in American history,” the historian Michael Beschloss said, at The New Yorker Festival on October 26th.

Divisive election campaign bears similarities to 1860 With news today of neocons and ultra-religious conservatives of the Republican Party seriously considering fielding an alternative to the ...