Like the Whigs who opposed “King Andrew,” the Democrats re-imagined themselves as the “resistance” to a Trump tyranny. The liberal-progressive combination proved successful immediately ...

The taunting post was just one in a recent string of comments from Trump suggesting that the United States annex Canada and ...

In a post in the Louisiana Illuminator (1/24), Keith Edgerton says as a historian he is drawn to our past to look at parallels as he outlined the collapse of the Whig Party. He attempted to make a ...

Henry Clay The Whigs were unanimous in their nomination of Henry Clay for the presidency, standing on the same platform as previous elections. 1844: Democrats: James K. Polk Democrats desired the ...