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 ...

(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 ...

Think polarization is new to American politics? Harvard research reveals counties with the highest slave populations in 1860 still predict conservative voting patterns today—and that’s just one of ...

When scholars from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History attend one of these gatherings, as they do each election, they save everything from hats to buttons to umbrellas to soap Naomi ...

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, ...

How the most divided period in the history of U.S. democracy – the mid-1800s – coincided with a sudden boom in new communications technologies, confrontational political influencers, widespread ...

The assassination attempt against Republican Presidential nominee and former President Donald Trump at a rally in Butler, Pa., on Saturday stunned Americans. While elected officials uniformly ...

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 ...

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 ...