There’s a popular belief that a good leader will win an election for their party, while a bad one will lose it. The numbers ...

Jefferson’s sentiments reflected the prevailing mood of a sizable majority of the country at the dawn of the 19th century: A ...

America’s first armed conflict with a foreign nation following the American Revolution was not the War of 1812, but rather a ...

French forces in Spain were severely overstretched, as Napoleon withdrew the best troops for his invasion of Russia. Wellington saw an opportunity to strike. First he secured the strategic ...