Phoenixville attorney Isaac Wayne MacVeagh helped Rutherford B. Hayes retain the White House in the 1876 Election Race amid ...

The US presidential elections of recent years have been some of most contested – and divisive – in history. Here, historian ...

The lame-duck period in the US is longer than in other Western democracies, which tend to make the transition over a period ...

Everybody knows that Gov. Tilden drew attention... View Full Article in Timesmachine » Advertisement ...

How an insurrection, fake electors and a right-wing “stop the steal” movement overturned an election and led to the end of American democracy.

When polls closed across all 28 US states (the country now has 50), Jackson was in the lead with 99 electoral votes, followed ...

The Electoral College decides who will be elected president and vice president of the US, and not the popular votes. Here are ...

What was the Great Migration? According to the National Archives, “it was one of the largest movements of people in United States history. Approximately six million Black people moved from the ...

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

The US presidential election of 2024 started as a dead heat,' a shrewd observer of American politics said to me this week 'and it's even closer now.' ...

at least since 1877, which is the now-famous dispute of presidential election between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel Tilden, where the House said one candidate won, the Senate said the other ...