Think polarization is new to American politics? Harvard research reveals counties with the highest slave populations in 1860 ...

Penn’s History Department is adding a new political history concentration, giving students the opportunity to explore the evolution of political institutions and state powers on a national and global ...

The controversy about Zach Bryan's latest song taps into a half century of political realignment and country's evolution.

(ThyBlackMan.com) The issue of abortion had a long-complicated history both before and after the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision, making abortion legal nationwide. It is a historical ...

The Republican Party of 2024 belongs to Donald Trump and to MAGA. But the populist right once viewed the GOP very differently. At the second annual Conservative Political Action Conference in 1975, ...

LEWISTON, Maine – In October, the professor in my American Parties, Campaigns, and Elections class read aloud some politicians’ quotes about their opponents and asked us to guess who said them. Some ...

The pendulum will swing back. It is a phrase invoked repeatedly, with variation, since Donald Trump’s reelection last November. Cable news anchor Chris Cuomo, Senator Angus King, and pollster Nate ...

The founder of Wikipedia, the peer-edited online encyclopedia, has launched a new political wiki site, saying it’s “time for politics to become more intelligent.” Jimmy “Jimbo” Wales launched the ...

Taylor Swift has officially endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election. After months of speculation over who Swift would endorse, the Grammy-award winning singer took to Instagram ...