"What is to become of our government?" : the revolutionary potential of the election of 1800 / James E. Lewis Jr.-- The political presidency : discovery and invention / Jack N. Rakove -- "The soil ...

Americans are headed to the polls today to cast their ballots in a crucial election. People are anxious, hopeful, and scared about the stakes of the election and its aftermath. But this is not the ...

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 ...

Shown is an undated portrait of Fr. Robert Haire, a socialist Catholic priest and influential direct democracy advocate who lived in Aberdeen, S.D., in the late 1800s and early 1900s. South Dakota ...