The president's latest tariff shakedown makes Tammany Hall and the Daley Machine look like the League of Women Voters.

Like the seasons, political parties come and go. In 1847, Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress as a Whig. By 1854 that ...

The one (and perhaps only) thing Americans seem to agree on these days is political rhetoric is too toxic. They long for ...

The 1831 duel between Thomas Biddle and U.S. Rep. Spencer Pettis, D-Mo., began with slights against the former's brother and ...

"Ah, the good old days! Except they weren’t so good. In fact, angry words sometimes even resulted in death," writes J. Mark ...

Henry Clay, Daniel Webster and the National Republicans fought back ... Their funerals were among the largest and most ...

The “affair of honor” was the talk of St. Louis. With dueling outlawed in Missouri and neighboring Illinois, they agreed to ...

Earlier this year, a group of organizers led by a daring performance artist donned 19th-century clothes ... settlers to Louisiana in the 18th century. As Daniel Rasmussen writes in American ...

But this production, astutely directed by Margaret Webster, was a more unconditional ... pipe-smoking old soldier in a 19th-century uniform — who haunted the imagination with his unblinking ...