Daily Breeze

Here’s a look at the history of political parties in the U.S.

With the Democratic National Convention starting in Chicago this week, we take a look at the history of political organizations in the U.S. There were no political conventions in the U.S. until 1831, ...
The Economist

Political parties are a feature, not a bug, of American democracy, writes H.W. Brands

KINGS EMBODY authority and impose order. Sack your king, as Americans did in their revolution of the 1770s, and you’ve got to find a new source of authority and new ways to ensure order. After a shaky ...
insider.si.edu

History of U.S. political parties Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., general editor

History of U.S. political parties Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., general editor Smithsonian Libraries and Archives ...
KPFA

A History of Political Parties

Daniel Schlozman is associate professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of When Movements Anchor Parties: Electoral Alignments in American History; and coauthor of ...
insider.si.edu

Political parties before the Constitution

Part I: Background -- Political Parties Before the Revolution -- The Subject and the Method -- The Issues -- Part II: Political Parties in the States -- Massachusetts -- New York -- New Jersey -- ...
c-span

User Clip: Clip: History of Political Parties

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New York Magazine on MSN

How Political Parties Die

The parties that have dominated European politics for decades are collapsing. Does the same fate await the Democrats and the ...