Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Wide Awakes were a series of clubs of mostly young men in their teens and early twenties, who organized parades throughout ...

Preface -- Republican storm rising? -- Democrats' trials and tribulations -- Democrats' nominations : Act I -- The third way -- Republicans choose an "available" man -- Democrats' nominations : Act II ...

Erik Larson’s new book The Demon of Unrest, published this year by Penguin Random House, takes place against a backdrop that readers will find familiar. The Demon of Unrest by Erik Larson An American ...

Election Day is coming up on Nov. 5, and if you're thinking that today's politics are complicated, consider what happened in Abraham Lincoln's day. After he was elected, but before he could even be ...

This is the third episode in an occasional series examining significant elections in American history. The most recent installment covered the election of 1992. Democracy and the Constitution are on ...

For community college students navigating U.S. history alongside sociology and economics, the Road to Secession often feels like a static list of dates. But a fresh look at the 1860–1861 timeline, ...

You’ve heard it before: we are living in divided times. Disagreement is part of being a citizen of a democracy, but in today's indisputably hot political climate, young people have stepped up into ...