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.

The Whig Party formed out of the National Republican ... The conservatives formed the Liberty Party and sought to end slavery gradually through traditional, political channels.

In a post in the Louisiana Illuminator (1/24), Keith Edgerton says as a historian he is drawn to our past to look at parallels as he outlined the collapse of the Whig Party. He attempted to make a ...

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 ...