The main parallel begins with Zachary Taylor’s converting his fame as a Mexican-American War hero into commandeering the Whig Party — despite boasting about never having voted before.

South Carolina was the home of independent-minded planters, some fabulously rich owners of magnificent mansions with a talent ...

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 ...

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 ...

Coalescing around an ideology of free labor, Lincoln and like-minded men founded the Republican Party to fill the vacuum left with the collapse of the national Whig and Democratic parties over the ...

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 three remaining ministers of the Free Democrats also resigned later at night effectively leading to the government coalition's collapse. However, in another unexpected turn of events, Transport ...

this growing protectionist movement coalesced around the powerful Kentucky legislator Henry Clay and his Whig Party. Clay, who first referred to the American System by name, and his allies were ...

German Eonomy Minister Robert Habeck says he hopes to become his Green Party’s chancellor in the coming election. The ...

Nine people have been detained after unrest that erupted during a protest over last week’s deadly roof collapse in a northern ...

Following World War II, the U.S. decisively shifted away from tariffs. The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act was widely blamed for deepening the Great Depression and contributing to the international conflicts ...