The United States has long conceived of itself as a ... Much of this early success was due to the demise of the Whig Party, weakened by internal dissent over national issues like slavery.

February 12 marks the birth of one of the greatest leaders of the United States of America. On February 12, 1809 one person ...

The taunting post was just one in a recent string of comments from Trump suggesting that the United States annex ... Jackson’s Democratic party and the opposition Whig party came to define ...

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 ...

Although Henry Clay controlled the Whig Party, Tyler refused to allow him to dominate the ... He vetoed a bill resurrecting the Bank of the United States (which Jackson had dismantled). He also vetoed ...