From the 1880s through the 1960s, Chicagoans engaged in a passionate debate over how government should respond...
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Families were deeply divided after the Civil War and Kentucky was the most violent state in the...
She was a famous activist in her day, arguably the most famous in the world. By Tom...
Why have some perceived the State as a threat? How has anti-statist thought changed over time? Originally...
What did it mean to become a citizen of the new nation? Originally published by Newberry Digital...
More successful than most third parties, it had two senators and fourteen representatives sent to the thirty-first...
The need to win popular support in a republic led to the American emergence of voter-based political...
When a party member was asked about its activities, he was supposed to reply, “I know nothing.”...
Is today’s world driven by the game theory, and could it perhaps explain all human interactions? Indeed,...
By 1840, William Henry Harrison became the first presidential candidate to tour and give speeches to adoring...
Lyrics ranged from broad satire to sincere political expression, demonstrating just how effective a messenger music can...
As people lost hope of reuniting as a society with common interests and goals, many focused on...
It was not new ideas but old ones that led the colonists to revolt and form a...
The very first scientific horse race poll, which took place 85 years ago, was shrouded in secrecy...
Roosevelt won the greatest electoral landslide since the beginning of the two-party system in the 1850s. Introduction...
Aristotle argued that there were six general ways in which societies could be organized under political rule....
The trials for ambitus were numerous in the time of the republic. Introduction In ancient Roman law,...
Procedures for electing members of Congress in the early republic greatly differed from the single-district system that...
This was a period of great experimentation and change in the development of political parties. The framers...
From the perspective of farmers, the legal system was being commandeered by attorneys representing railroads and trusts....
The forces that have shaped the Rough Rider’s presidential legacy in the decades since his death nearly...
The movement toward oligarchy was led by a number of prominent and wealthy Athenians. Introduction The Athenian...
Athenian democracy was indeed a direct democracy, but not for everybody. By Georgios Mavropalias A sequence of...
The winning supporters of ratification of the Constitution were called Federalists and the opponents were called Anti-Federalists....
By 1796 politics in every state was nearly monopolized by two parties, with party newspapers and caucuses...
Gerrymandering, the politicians’ practice of drawing district lines to favor their party and expand their power, is...
Examining the two-hundred-year-old creation of Founding Father Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts. By Harlow Giles Unger As Americans...
They asked voters to sort through mounds of partisan propaganda and do whatever necessary to understand the...
His brother, Marcus (the famed orator), was running for consul, the loftiest office in the Roman Republic....
A new book argues that violent rhetoric and disregard for political norms was the beginning of Rome’s...