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The Most Contentious Presidential Election, Ever - HarpWeek

In 1876, Americans marked their centennial as an independent nation with celebrations ranging from small-town barbecues to big-city parades.  The festivities reached their peak in...

How Elephant Came to Represent GOP - Robert Kennedy, HarpWeek

 In this cartoon, artist Thomas Nast reacts to a series of editorials in the New York Herald criticizing what Herald owner/editor James Gordon Bennett Jr. considered to be President...

The Origins of the Republican Party - U.S. History

Trying times spawn new forces. The Missouri Compromise of 1820 divided the country at the 36° 30' parallel between the pro-slavery, agrarian South and anti-slavery, industrial North,...

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