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The Democrats Are Eisenhower Republicans

For decades, Democrats have positioned themselves as fiscally responsible while Republicans happily hand tax cuts to the rich.

by Josh Mound via Jacobin on July 3, 2017

Why Did U.S. Postmasters Once Have So Much Political Cachet?

Bureaucracy used to work through patronage, an informal system of job-distribution by the party in power. Why did it change?

by Matthew Wills, Samuel Kernell, Michael P. McDonald via JSTOR Daily on May 24, 2017

Trying to Remember J.F.K.

On the centenary of his birth, seeking the man behind the myth.

by Thomas Mallon via The New Yorker on May 22, 2017

The Immigration-Obsessed, Polarized, Garbage-Fire Election of 1800

A madman versus a crook? Unexpected twists? Fake news? Welcome to the election of 1800.

by A. Roger Ekirch via Longreads on March 28, 2017

A political cartoon showing two figures leading donkeys in opposite directions. The donkeys are depicted with the faces of Zachary Taylor and Henry Clay.

Prospects for Partisan Realignment: Lessons from the Demise of the Whigs

What America’s last major party crack-up in the 1850s tells us about the 2010s.

by Philip Wallach via Brookings on March 6, 2017

Corey M. Brooks, Liberty Power: Antislavery Third Parties and the Transformation of American Politics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016.

#FEELTHEBIRNEY

The most important third party in the history of American politics is one you may never have heard of before.

by W. Caleb McDaniel via Commonplace on September 4, 2016

Upheaval at the 1860 Democratic Convention: What Happened When a Party Split

Some issues are too fundamental for a party to withstand, and the consequences can last for a generation.

via Retro Report on July 28, 2016

Delegates on the floor at the Democratic National Convention at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, August 26, 1964.

How to Steal an Election

The crazy history of nominating Conventions.

by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker on June 27, 2016

Bank in Revere, Massachusetts.

Partisan Banking and the Emergence of Free Banking in Early 19th-Century Massachusetts

The critical role that banking played in the political struggles of early American history.

by Nicholas Curott via Dissertation Reviews on April 21, 2016

The Art of the New Deal

Despite a fractured party and health concerns, FDR capitalized on name recognition to win the 1932 presidential election.

by Rebecca Onion via Slate on March 31, 2016

Bill Clinton in front of a poster that reads "New Democrats".

Atari Democrats

As organized labor lost strength, the Democratic Party turned to professional-class voters to shore up its base.

by Lily Geismer via Jacobin on February 8, 2016

Are Reagan Democrats Becoming Trump Democrats?

Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump may prove that having once been a Democrat is an asset for a Republican presidential nominee for president

by Jeffrey Lord via The American Spectator on August 13, 2015

The New Racism

A glimpse inside the Alabama State House suggests that the civil rights movement may have reached its end.

by Jason Zengerle via The New Republic on August 10, 2014

Political cartoon of U.S. President Martin Van Buren sitting on a fence as men on each side try to pull him toward them.

The Spirit of Party and Faction

On factional strife in the Early Republic, and why parties themselves were universally despised.

via BackStory on June 13, 2014

George Washington Plunkitt

The Case for Corruption

Why Washington needs more honest graft.

by Jonathan Rauch via The Atlantic on March 1, 2014

This editorial cartoon from a January 1879 edition of Harper's Weekly depicting a white man misspelling words on a sign announcing Black voters must pass a literacy test, while a Black man looks on laughing.

The Racial History Of The 'Grandfather Clause'

Companies and individuals are considered grandfathered and exempt from new sets of regulations all the time. But the term and the concept dates to a darker era.

by Alan Greenblatt via NPR on October 22, 2013

Cartoon of congressmen talking in two insular groups. Illustration by Steve Brodner

The Empty Chamber

For many reasons, senators don’t have the time, or the inclination, to get to know one another—least of all members of the other party.

by George Packer via The New Yorker on August 2, 2010

The large Wide Awake parade in lower Manhattan.

“Young Men for War”: The Wide Awakes and Lincoln’s 1860 Presidential Campaign

Wearing shiny black capes and practicing infantry drills had nothing to do with preparing for civil war.

by Jon Grinspan via Journal of American History on September 1, 2009

Joseph Dennie.

Was the Federalist Press Staid and Apolitical?

Quite the contrary. They used rhetoric to build a partisan community, and realized that parties needed to create and market identities, not simply agendas.

by Catherine O'Donnell Kaplan via Commonplace on October 1, 2008

Political Construction of a Natural Disaster: The Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1853

The conversation around race after Hurricane Katrina echoed discourse from another New Orleans disaster 150 years before.

by Henry M. McKiven Jr. via Journal of American History on December 1, 2007

Supreme Court Cronyism

With the nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court, George W. Bush restarts a long and troubled tradition.

by David Greenberg via Slate on October 5, 2005

Poet-playwright and political activist Imamu Amiri Baraka recites his poem, "Its Nation Time," at the National Black Political Convention.

The Black Political Convention

Black Journal interviews with Imamu Amiri Baraka, poet-playwright and co-chairman of the National Black Political Convention.

by Black Journal via American Archive of Public Broadcasting on March 28, 1972

Portrait of Charles Sumner

First in War, First in Nepotism

In 1872, Charles Sumner decries “a president who makes his great office a plaything and perquisite.”

by Charles Sumner via Lapham’s Quarterly on May 31, 1872

Man reading a newspaper

A Brief Literary History of the Newspaper Endorsement

When did endorsements become pro forma, anyway? And what do they even do?

by Brittany Allen via Literary Hub on October 30, 2024

Photo of Framer James A. Bayard then a modern day photo of Congresswoman Liz Cheney.

How Past and Present Catch Up With Each Other

The election of 1801 offers a first-hand example of how current events can offer historians new perspectives on the past.

by James M. Banner Jr. via The Panorama on October 23, 2024

Samuel Gompers giving a speech in front of a crowd with his arms open wide.

A Return to Gompers

Samuel Gompers, the Teamsters at the Republican National Convention, and where unions fit into party politics.

by Dustin Guastella via Jacobin on September 27, 2024

Theodore Roosevelt giving a speech.

A Brief History of Former Presidents Running for Reelection: 3 Losses, 1 Win and 1 Still TBD

History illustrates that voters become galvanized and change their party allegiance when former US presidents run for a nonconsecutive term.

by Graeme Mack via The Conversation on September 24, 2024

Political cartoon of a politician with his clothes removed, revealing tattoos showing corruption.

Campaign Missteps: Gaffes on the Trail

How a single phrase or blunder can end up dominating our political discourse.

via Retro Report on September 20, 2024

Remains of an elephant preserved at the US National Museum.

How Moderate Republicans Went Extinct

On Nelson Rockefeller and the disappearance of moderate Republicans from American politics.

by Henry M. J. Tonks via Public Seminar on September 18, 2024

Andrew Jackson and John C. Calhoun.

Picking a Partner: The V.P. Relationship

The relationship between presidents and vice presidents is unique and often personal. Sometimes, internal divisions spill out into public life.

via Retro Report on September 14, 2024

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