Both men sought the presidency. They came from different backgrounds, held different goals, and had radically different ...

The coalitions that Jackson built during his presidential campaigns created enduring infrastructure for later progressives, particularly in Vermont.

Jackson didn’t just pave the way for Barack Obama. He envisioned a Democratic coalition and a policy agenda that were ahead ...

Danielle Wiggins, a historian at Georgetown University, says Jesse Jackson’s 1984 and 1988 campaigns used rhetoric, tactics, and policy that would greatly benefit Democrats today.

With his two unabashedly left-populist campaigns for president in 1984 and 1988, Jesse Jackson opened the door to Bernie ...

One footnote in his career is how he upended a Southern Democratic primary in 1988 intended to nominate a more moderate candidate.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson kept up his more than half-century-long fight for civil and human rights through his final years ...

Americans were feeling pretty good in 1820. So good, in fact, they called it the “Era of Good Feelings.” When the War of 1812 ...

Asian stocks rose following a Wall Street rally, led by Nikkei's 5.7% surge after Prime Minister Takaichi's election win, ...

On Feb. 8, 1587, Mary Queen of Scots was beheaded, charged with conspiring to kill England's Queen Elizabeth I.

The proposal from Virginia Democrats would shift the 4th District's boundaries westward, picking up Danville and three ...

"What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun," King ...