Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Washington native James Smallwood had had the old musket of another era for ...

James Carville wants the Democratic Party of old to return. But David Hogg, vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee, wants the opposite.

Reformers in the Republican Party, which dominated national politics in the 1860s and 1870s, had been calling for a professional, merit-based civil service since shortly after the Civil War.

Lincoln, worried that conciliatory overtures toward the South would appear weak, employed a preinaugural strategy of ‘masterly inactivity.’ ...