Due to his military career, William Henry Harrison became the frontrunner of the Whig Party—a new political faction assembled by opposition to Jackson. Despite his aristocratic Virginian roots, the ...

The Whig Party formed out of the National Republican Party, the leaders of which were John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay. They were nationalists, supported internal improvements and moral reforms ...

Much of this early success was due to the demise of the Whig Party, weakened by internal dissent over national issues like slavery. Some former Whigs defected to the Know-Nothings while others ...

Tyler, who supported states’ rights over federal power, was largely at odds with the nationalistic policies of his adopted Whig Party. He was rejected as the party’s candidate in 1844. Challenges: ...

his party, the Whigs, never recovered. Clearly, historical analogizing is tricky, susceptible to charges of round-peg-into-square-hole-shoving. Still, I stand by my analysis. For starters ...

Although many called for a war against Britain, Van Buren exercised restraint. In 1836, the Whig Party had just been established. The Whigs' strategy for taking the presidency was to offer three ...

Nerves filled all four floors of Whig Hall as the results of the election were broadcast live to the room during the Whig-Clio’s election night watch party. The event, hosted by Whig-Clio and Vote 100 ...

The 43 rhesus macaque monkeys that escaped a South Carolina medical lab this week are among the most studied animals on the planet. And for more than a century, they have held a mirror to humanity ...

The USA will elect its next president – using a system that was devised more than 200 years ago. It can produce grotesque ...

It’s too damaging. Baker pressed Cheney as to whether there might need to be a “new party” much as the GOP was “born out of ...