I started thinking recently about presidential elections of the early 1900s, which bear some resemblances to today. Like this year, 1912 saw a former president campaign to return to office. Similarly, ...

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On this day, Oct. 14, in 1912, saloonkeeper John Schrank shot President Theodore Roosevelt during a campaign stop in Milwaukee. With the .32-caliber bullet still in him, Roosevelt delivered his speech ...

"Avenge my death!" -- "We stand at Armageddon" --"God has called me to be His instrument" -- "We want no king" -- A perfect stranger" -- "I'm not a fancy fencing ...

Koffman said his district deserves a full-time representative. Cameron Koffman, 22, recently announced his run for the New York State Assembly. If elected, he would be the youngest New York ...

What happens when a former president decides he wants his old job back, regardless of what stands in his way? In my view as a scholar of 20th-century American history, Roosevelt’s sense of entitlement ...