With the first 20 Africans brought to Virginia in 1619, the United States initiated a labor system characterized by extreme ...

Lincoln’s time as a young man on the make had made him think hard about the relationship between Americans and their government. In his era, elite southern enslavers insisted that government had no ...

The Black church has long played a significant role in supporting faith and the fight for Civil Rights in America, with its ...

The equal rulers returned England to Protestant rule and began a new era of royal leadership defined by parliamentary oversight ...

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

Methods for tallying votes to determine a primary election's outcome include plurality counts and majority counts. Forty-one states require that a candidate receive a plurality of all votes cast in ...

With the 1824 election approaching, Secretary of State John Quincy Adams probably thought he was President James Monroe’s ...

BOSSIER CITY, La. (KSLA) - The qualifying period for the March 29 elections ended Friday evening (Jan. 31), and one mayoral candidate has already secured re-election. Tommy Chandler, the current mayor ...

Reformers in the Republican Party, which dominated national politics in the 1860s and 1870s, had been calling for a ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The German federal election on February 23 will determine the fate of Europe’s largest economy, with ...

Tuesday marks the first congressional special elections of President Donald Trump’s second term. Republican primary voters in Florida’s 1st and 6th Congressional Districts will pick the likely ...