Eric and Eliot provide their thumbnail review of the Trump-Harris debate and then welcome their special guest Lindsay ...

Prior to becoming the 13th president, Fillmore practiced law in New York and served eight years in the House of ...

Boston experienced election fever 184 years ago when the Whig Convention came to town. The Bishop of Boston Benedict Joseph Fenwick was in attendance and wrote about the hubbub brought by thousands of ...

The presidential office was first envisioned to be more like a clerk's job, and in its earliest incarnation, it was almost ...

Gen Z voters hardly remember what came before Trump. Soon it may be harder to remember American politics without them. Susan McWilliams Barndt is a politics professor at Pomona College.

Young Hickory left office in 1849 in poor health, retiring to Tennessee where he died three months later; The shortest ...

Everyone knows the two major players in American politics: the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. At all elections ...

It feels as distant from them as the Whigs or the Federalists — a story that took place a long time ago in an America far, far away. Even my students with traditionally Republican and ...

I’m old enough to remember when most Republicans and Democrats — and maybe even Greens, Communists, Whigs, Libertarians and Know Nothings — would stop with one question. Have you ever ...

In an 1848 speech, then first-term Rep. Abraham Lincoln (Whig-Ill.) rebutted Democratic criticisms that the Whigs were hiding under the “military coattail” of their presidential nominee ...

Ever since she ascended as the presidential nominee of her party, Vice President Kamala Harris has been riding a wave of ...