Democrats have won 19 of 42 presidential elections since the party first ran a presidential candidate (Andrew Jackson) in 1828. While there is no precise date for the beginning of the Democratic ...

This book investigates a particular group, called Young America, within the U.S. Democratic Party during the 1840s and 1850s. It argues that members of this group changed what it meant to be a ...

The Democratic Party is wrestling with Jackson's support ... Jackson's "passion and lack of self-control" in both 1824 and 1828, "making it central to the argument that he would devastate the ...

I write this on Day Two of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago. In full disclosure, I am a lifelong Democrat.

What ‘GOP’ means isn’t complicated—but its history is.

Its opponents become the Democratic-Republican Party, founded by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. In 1828, Andrew Jackson starts the Democratic Party and is its first elected president.

In his recent article “The Democratic Subversion of Democracy,” Ben Shapiro decries how the Democratic Party is undermining ...

That was the largest bloc of states consistently won by the Democrats over that many elections since the formation of the modern party system in 1828 ... a leading Democratic super PAC, projects ...

“His vendettas, his vengeance, his complaints, his conspiracies.” In the Democratic Party, it’ll soon be here. While the main job of the party’s convention is to propel Harris into the fal ...

In 1791, Jackson married Rachel Donelson Robards (1767-1828). He was her second husband ... the donkey would later become a symbol of the new Democratic Party. Supporters of Adams accused Jackson of ...

with Vice President Kamala Harris set to officially accept the Democratic Party's nomination for president on Thursday night. In 2016, I spoke at the DNC as a mother who had lost her son just four ...

During the years leading up to the Civil War, it permeated various parts of the Democratic party, producing new perspectives in the realms of economics, foreign policy, and constitutionalism. Led by ...