Hopefully, an election like 1876 will never happen again — but fear that it might makes this book an essential read. — Ole J. Forsberg Cailin O’Connor & James Owen Weatherall Yale University ...

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

On July 20, the preliminary sketch of the method was agreed to, but, as historian Sean Wilentz notes in his engaging book ... notably the contentious election of 1876 and, in more recent times ...

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

Vicious partisan attacks against a former, and possibly future, president violate the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

Temperatures on Election Day 2024 could be some of the warmest ever recorded in Philadelphia for a presidential election.

The Electoral Count Act of 1887 came as a reaction to the presidential election of 1876, in which Democrat Samuel Tilden won the popular vote but lost the presidency to Republican Rutherford B.

And Walt Whitman wrote a long essay titled “Democratic Vistas.” The author of “Leaves of Grass” (1855), whose poems are still found in every anthology of American poetry, felt moved to address the ...

With the creation of the Office of Election Crimes and Security, voting rights advocates say the gloves came off in the ...

The building used to be a boat-assembly plant, which made the festivities oddly apt, since tattoos have always thrived on ...