Elections in the 19th century were far different ... A former postmaster in Decatur, Butler arrived in the capital city in ...

Millard Fillmore, who served as president from 1850 to 1853, accepted the 1856 nomination of the American, or Know Nothing ...

Is this the first presidential election where we had a former president running against a current vice president? Looking at ...

The Hill Country counties have been staunchly Republican for years, and Democrats didn't bother to field a candidate in many ...

In battleground Wisconsin, Republican incumbent Derrick Van Orden faces Democrat challenger Rebecca Cooke in the race for U.S ...

Should Donald Trump win back the White House on Nov. 5, he wouldn’t be the first former president to be elevated to a ...

If there’s any takeaway from our 1890s forebears, it’s that no matter how intense an election feels, life always goes on.

A CT history professor revisits the memorable election of 1884, 'one of the dirtiest in U.S. history,' which inspired a poem ...

On them rested the superior class of people, who took the capital the mudsills produced and used it to move the economy, and even civilization itself, forward. The world could not survive without the ...

If Donald Trump wins, he will be only the second president to serve nonconsecutive terms. Grover Cleveland, of course, was ...

Here’s a timeless dictum that aptly applies to election administration: Everything looks suspicious when you don’t know how anything works. Elections are a complex mix of diverse laws ...

To understand, democracy requires an appreciation of two basic factors. The first centers on the fundamental principles of a ...