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The infamous 'log cabin and hard cider' campaign of WIlliam Henry Harrison
Delmarva Now | The Daily Times via Yahoo News· 4 months ago“The delegation of this gallant little State [Delaware] reached the city at an early hour yesterday...
Speaker election takes 15 ballots, the most since before Civil War
CBS News via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe race for House speaker was finally settled at the end of a fourth day of negotiating and...
Opinion: We could be witnessing the Republican Party break apart in real time
CNN via Yahoo News· 8 months agoEditor’s note: Thomas Balcerski teaches history at Eastern Connecticut State University. He is the...
Henry Clay was among controversial, 'conspicuous characters' in Columbus
The Columbus Dispatch via Yahoo News· 1 year agoHenry Clay was one of the most prominent and provocative men of his time. A son of the generation of...
James Pfister: Peyton Randolph, the original founding father
The Daily Telegram via Yahoo News· 2 months agoPeyton was a transitional man, evolving in his life from being the English King’s attorney in...
New Jersey has not always been kind to native sons running for the presidency
The Bergen Record via Yahoo News· 8 months agoFormer Gov. Chris Christie is fighting to become one of just a handful of Garden State natives to...
W.Va. Week in History - John Jay Jackson Jr.
The Register-Herald, Beckley, W.Va. via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAug. 2—Judge John Jay Jackson Jr. (August 4, 1824-September 2, 1907) was born near Parkersburg. A year after his graduation from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) in 1845, ...
Third-party candidates' 'extraordinarily difficult' task to attract voters, get on ballot
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 3 months agoAfter casting his vote for Donald Trump for president in 2016 in what he thought was a "fail-safe"...
This week in West Virginia history
Times West Virginian, Fairmont via Yahoo News· 2 years agoNov. 26—CHARLESTON — The following events happened on these dates in West Virginia history. To read more, go to e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia at www.wvencyclopedia.org. Nov. 27, 1848: ...
Potential Trump, Biden rematch would be first in half a century, but not in the White House
The Hill via Yahoo News· 1 year agoWith President Biden officially declaring his candidacy for reelection in 2024, the country could be...
