Politics doesn't just unfold in documents and legislation—it also takes shape off the record in social environments.

When our first populist president, Andrew Jackson, claimed that his 1832 reelection constituted a broad mandate for his entire agenda, his nemesis Sen. Henry Clay demurred: “Sir, the truth is, ...

As the Montana Legislature meets again, a handful of Republicans are promoting bills to change the way that Montanans elect our judges. These Republicans want to change judicial elections from ...

The country's founders used media of the day to battle out their differences, but those papers also wrote about daily happenings. Those papers reflected community life, says Ginnie Graham.

John Adams was sworn in as the second President of the United States and began a four-year stretch that would be dominated by ...

Two bills that would establish a new entity called the School of American Civic Thought and Leadership on OU’s campus have ...

Since the 1770s there have been more than 250 state constitutional conventions, requiring, in many cases, residents of those ...

The US now faces the likelihood of a bruising and raucous set of confirmation hearings − a clear break from the cooperative ...

Speaking to the Columbia University Class of 1968, professor Richard Hofstadter called college “a community devoted to inquiry.” GW and its students must recenter the classics of the humanities to ...

As the New Year is underway, I am trying to stick to this year’s resolution to be better informed. Thomas Jefferson once said ...

The basement of the Indiana Supreme Court Law Library is home to papers of former justices, renovation records and other ...

His emergency application is backed by former Attorney General Edwin Meese and Steven Calabresi, co-chair of the Federalist ...