Only one period in US history witnessed such an extended collection of closely contested elections. America is tuning into the golden oldie era of the '80s—the 1880s. American politics has ...

Though uniformed young partisans marched in elections from 1860 through 1900, the 1880 race was particularly consequential. It would be the first presidential election since the end of ...

We've been in the campaign reporting business ever since. Here are the Post's front pages for every U.S. presidential election since 1880, from Grover Cleveland and Calvin Coolidge to Ronald ...

The federal election of 1888 was heavily contested and has been ranked as one of the most fraudulent in Arkansas history. That year, John Middleton Clayton, brother of former governor Powell ...

Between 1830 and 1880, a number of elections yielded no candidate who achieved a majority vote. In those circumstances, the alternative means for election provided by the 1820 Constitution had to ...

Mr. McKinley said the purpose of the Democrats in attempting to repeal the Federal Election laws was to destroy... View Full Article in Timesmachine » Advertisement ...

Tyng, Jr., addressed a large assemblage last evening, from the pulpit of the Church of the Holy Trinity on the "Moral Lessons of the Recent Election." Church and State had, he said, been disunited ...

But that's nothing new. There have been many other pivotal presidential elections in our history, some that set an entirely new course for the United States and a few that were crucial to the very ...

Politicians had to spend more money getting each vote in 1880 than they do today, research suggests. Despite complaints that glossy adverts and hi-tech voter-targeting mean that modern elections cost ...