Donald Trump’s executive order purporting to end birthright citizenship is an attempt to reverse one outcome of the Civil War ...

Jim Jeffords quit the Republican Party to declare himself an independent ... with unified control of Congress in 1840, 1844, 1852 and 1856 – and then promptly lost it two years later.

They clearly needed new, ambitious proposals to help working Americans, but that would undermine a de facto “business model” that has guided their party for decades. Once again, it seemed that ...

He had gained popularity in Illinois after his famed “Lost Speech” of May 29, 1856, elevated him to leadership for the new state Republican Party. He was best known within Illinois ...

Jeffersonian Republicans held animosity toward Alexander Hamilton, one of Washington’s key allies who formed the Federalist Party ... Then, between 1856 and 1876, with the Civil War ...

There’s a niche in the side of the ballroom at Balmoral, which is where the royal party were supposed to sit ... the first female modern celebrity. In 1856, Florence Nightingale went to Balmoral ...

For all the talk about his being a renegade and a one-man wrecking ball, he displays a clear appreciation of the centrality ...

If the GOP's beliefs fell so quickly under Trump, maybe it was political expediency that was propping them up all along.

Donald Trump and his defense attorneys did everything they could to derail sentencing in the president-elect’s criminal case, but in the end, they failed. As last week came to an end, the ...