The basic principle that governed voting in colonial America was that voters should have a “stake in society.”...

The story of European colonialism in the Americas and its victimization of Africans and Indians follows a...

Abraham Lincoln was, for most of his political career, a highly partisan Whig. As long as the Whig Party existed, he never supported the candidate of another party. Until the late 1850s, his chief...

Sandra Day O’Connor still has a lot of work to do. The first woman on the United States Supreme Court who recently described herself as “a retired cowgirl” continues to...