Days after Buchanan took office, the United States Supreme Court handed down one of its most infamous rulings - the Dred ...

The origins of voting outside the polling place in the U.S. date back to 1813.

The election of 1824 ended that era ... Looking back no further than 1812, which was the last time there had been a serious contest for the presidency, the number of states had increased from ...

Looking now to “Old Rough and Ready” - Zachary TaylorPrior to becoming the twelfth president Taylor joined the military at ...

Elections are the foundation of representative democracy. Your right to have a say at the ballot box was paid for with blood ...

When the world snoops on the relationship between the United States and Canada, they see a complicated marriage. Longtime ...

Throughout the early days of Arkansas' statehood leading up to the Civil War, a powerful group of Democrats known as the "The ...

On a cold, wind-swept November afternoon two weeks after election day, the crowds that ... Royal Navy battled for and lost during the War of 1812. A majority of voters here had backed the eventual ...

During the War of 1812, Key was on a British ship seeking to secure the exchange of American prisoners. While on the British ship, Key was present during the Battle of Baltimore and the naval ...

Jackson had earned a devoted following in Tennessee, having been a prosecutor, judge, congressman, senator, and general in the War of 1812. After losing to John Quincy Adams in the confused, ...

Georgia’s Fulton County has hired a team of independent monitors to observe its operations for this year’s general election.

She is in Moscow awaiting her fiancee’s return from the war when she finds a new romance in “Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812,” performed Sept. 5-Oct. 27 at Writers Theatre.