This video uncovers how Lyndon Johnson’s 1964 election strategy, the battle over civil rights, and a Republican Party civil war collided with elite “Eastern Establishment” advisers to produce the ...

FLORIDA — It could be said, unfairly of course, that women started the wrangling more than 40 years ago about the Town Hall, and where voting should take place in this small Mohawk Trail town. But ...

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Americans live with many oddities in our political system. We hand the White House to candidates who lost the election by popular vote count. We elect sheriffs and judges like it's still the Wild West ...

IF you’ve forgotten who it was that Alton B. Parker ran against and in what year … or the name of Lincoln’s first-term Vice President . . . you probably can use TIME’S 1964 Election Year Argument ...

Paul Whiteley has received funding from the British Academy and the ESRC. Thinktank More in Common recently published an MRP (multi-level regression with post-stratification) poll which appears to ...

In 1968, Kevin Phillips wrote a book called “The Emerging Republican Majority.” Its theory was that the 1952-1964 elections had demonstrated that the Republican Party had succeeded in breaking off ...

This week the U.S. Electoral College convened in Washington, made the Nov. 3 presidential election outcome official by casting 486 electoral votes for Lyndon Johnson, 52 votes for Barry Goldwater.

President Johnson’s thumping victory at the polls this month promises to have important repercussions for the American religious scene. Perhaps the most immediate if not the most important effect is ...

He’s the first convicted felon elected to the nation’s highest office, and will become only the second president to serve two non-consecutive terms. Donald Trump is also the only former president who ...

PHOENIX - It's a rather common sight for presidential races in the United States: whoever wins the election will enjoy a lot of media attention as the leader of a major country, while we hear less ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Shannon Bow O'Brien, The University of Texas at Austin (THE CONVERSATION) Election ...