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.

America went to war against Great Britain to assert its rights as an independent, sovereign nation, and to attempt the ...

He had experience in Congress as both a representative and senator, and had been secretary of war under President Franklin ...

The presidential election of 1788, the first under the newly minted Constitution, was unusual and even unique in ways that ...

The 1860 presidential election helped to change that, and a studio in Lincoln’s hometown of Springfield led the way. The ...

Explore a broad slate of FRONTLINE’s political coverage — about President-elect Donald Trump, his VP pick JD Vance, VP Kamala Harris, President Biden’s legacy, the state of U.S. politics and voters’ ...

The 1898 Wilmington massacre left dozens of Black North Carolinians dead. Conspirators also forced the city's multiracial ...

The American republic of George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and James Monroe is not the republic ...

What happens now will entirely depend on how much tolerance each side will have as a result of who is elected. If either side turns the result of the election into violent actions, the country could ...

Growing up in southern Westmoreland County, when my family said “We’re going into town,” more often than not, that meant ...

Minnesota's 10 electoral college votes will be going to Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris, CBS News projects.

It’s not that we’ll lose America if Donald Trump wins a second term. The United States will endure. But his victory might mark the end of one republic and the start of another, although “republic” may ...