Following this defeat, America’s elite shifted into opposition mode. In 1834, Clay established the Whig Party, choosing the name to evoke the opposition to Tory royalists in England ...

This difference became especially pronounced by the 1830s, when a growing divide between Andrew Jackson’s Democratic party and the opposition Whig party came to define the American political debate.

The Whig Party formed out of the National Republican Party, the leaders of which were John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay. They were nationalists, supported internal improvements and moral reforms ...

Abraham Lincoln is best known for his role as a wartime president, but his economic policies were a precursor to the New Deal ...

Due to his military career, William Henry Harrison became the frontrunner of the Whig Party—a new political faction assembled by opposition to Jackson. Despite his aristocratic Virginian roots, the ...

J. Scott Applewhite The Associated Press Is the Democrat Party going in the same direction that the Whig Party went in 1856? Since 2009, the Democrats have lost more than 900 seats in state ...

Much of this early success was due to the demise of the Whig Party, weakened by internal dissent over national issues like slavery. Some former Whigs defected to the Know-Nothings while others ...

Abigail Koontz. the curator for the Washington County Historical Society, details the history behind the Miller House on West ...

Franklin Pierce was the lackluster choice of the Democratic Party in 1852, nominated after 48 ballots. In a campaign devoid of issues—for example, both parties endorsed the Compromise of 1850—Pierce ...

Thanks to the per-vote subsidy that remains in place for Ontario political parties, votes do help parties that don’t necessarily win seats, so voting one’s conscience is not a waste, according to ...