Rachel Reeves swapped a portrait of Nigel Lawson, Margaret Thatcher’s chancellor, with one of Ellen Wilkinson.

President-elect Donald Trump's return follows the trail of another American president who rebounded from defeat to victory and then four years of unchecked power.

South Carolina is preparing to honor Robert Smalls, a former slave who became a prominent political leader, by erecting the first statue of an individual African American on its Statehouse lawn.

Robert Smalls escaped slavery by stealing a slaveowner’s ship and later became a South Carolina political leader ... Handy photograph collection shows a portrait of Robert Smalls created between 1870 ...

In the early days of voting in America, bribery, drunken brawls and parades accompanied elections as a public holiday. All of ...

in the early 1880s. It’s intriguing that Manitowoc has a small role in his story. A book written about six years ago explores, in part, the idea that portraits of Wyatt and his first wife Urilla ...

She traveled to political and social-issue conventions ... The issue was finally settled in 1880, when the Fosters paid the back taxes." Abby Kelley Foster died on Jan. 14, 1887.

In 1857 he was elected to Parliament as an independent Radical MP for Glasgow, in what was described as the "bitter fight of ...

and lacking in meaningful political or social influence. I might add two caveats to that reassuring portrait, however. The first is that marginal, isolated extremist cells themselves can become ...

1880, photo: Polona.pl Both the moderately wealthy ... and the colours or the knot could shed light on the political views or religious denomination of the wearer. Portrait of Stanisław Krasiński by ...

This week marks the 140th anniversary of Zionism’s first significant international conference, held in today’s Katowice, ...

Legendary novelist John Dos Passos tells the story of economist Thorstein Veblen, the outspoken Progressive Era critic of capitalism who coined the phrase “conspicuous consumption.” ...