In “America’s Deadliest Election,” Dana Bash and David Fisher detail an especially dangerous episode of political unrest.

1868. Coincidentally, that was the same day that the Democratic Party finalized their national ticket for the first presidential election since the end of the Civil War. Governor Horatio Seymour ...

Eisner is a Ph.D. student in history at Johns Hopkins University. Froomkin is an assistant professor of law at the University ...

Our history is not all crises weathered and problems solved. It is also brass bands, and torchlight parades, and barrels of ...

In the time leading up to the 1868 presidential election, the Klan's activities picked up in speed and brutality. The election, which pitted Republican Ulysses S. Grant against Democrat Horatio ...

In the 15 presidential elections since 1948 ... "More than half of the open-seat elections since 1868 have been near dead-heat elections." * Opinions on the war of terrorism favored Bush in 2004 by a ...

To date, besides Florida in 1868, the only other instance of a state legislature choosing presidential electors without a popular election came in 1876. The overall conclusion is that the Southern ...