In a world where personal branding is paramount, individuals are often marketed like products. Nowhere is this phenomenon ...

When Andrew Jackson won the 1828 presidential election, his victory also set into motion a political shift that would result ...

His party had not won an election with a candidate from the Deep South for almost a century and a half since Andrew Jackson ...

The 1828 election was early in the history of our republic ... Some of its members, such as Clay, had been lifelong Democratic-Republicans, the party founded by Thomas Jefferson that Jackson’s rise ...

The coalition collapse that doomed Biden follows a grim precedent set by another Democratic leader: Jimmy Carter.

His party had not won an election with a candidate from the Deep South for almost a century and a half since Andrew Jackson of Tennessee became the nation’s first Democratic president in 1828 ...

January 8 has seen pivotal events. On this day in 1992, US President George HW Bush vomited at a state dinner in Tokyo with Japan’s then-prime minister, Kiichi Miyazawa. It also marks the birthdays of ...

Mexico was governed by the Institutional Revolutionary Party for 70 years; India by the founding Congress Party for 30. Then ...

When Martin Van Buren arrived in Washington to be sworn in as a senator in 1821, he told a friend he planned to “build up a ...

Christian nationalism had a lasting impact on the presidential oath of office: There is no evidence George Washington added ...

The Battle of New Orleans made Jackson a national hero and set him on the road to the White House, and he assumed office as ...

Between 1828 and 1880, Pennsylvania was the only state ... But then the state switched abruptly and began to support Democratic presidential candidates by margins larger than the nation’s ...