The legacy of slavery in America remains a divisive issue, with sharp political divides. Some argue that slavery still ...

We found that legislators who are descendants of slaveholders are significantly wealthier than members of Congress without slaveholder ancestry. In 1860, one year before the Civil War, the market ...

The divisions among the Anti-Republicans of the Eighth Congressional District having been settled by the withdrawal of the rival candidates, and the nomination of ISAAC C. DELAPLAINE to represent ...

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The 1860 election, a four-way contest with an unlikely winner ... Chase to the president-elect that now rests in the ...

A Republican presidential candidate endangering democracy, threatening the Constitution and such a menace to America he could ...

Our Congress debates and our newspapers discuss ... though the uninitiated fail to see any logical sequence from 1789 to 1815 or 1860. If Mr. Bell loves the Constitution, Mr. Breckinridge is ...

A key ally to former President Donald Trump detailed plans to deploy the military in response to domestic unrest, defund the ...

The state peaked at 12 votes from 1912 to 1928, and it had just four at its inaugural presidential election in 1860.

Since 1860, those two parties have been the Democratic ... The suburbs have become political battlegrounds that often decide which party wins Congress and the White House. How have the Republican ...

We found that legislators who are descendants of slaveholders are significantly wealthier than members of Congress without slaveholder ancestry. In 1860, one year before the Civil War, the market ...