Some issues are too fundamental for a party to withstand, and the consequences can last for a generation.

Sometimes the most important speech at the convention isn’t delivered by the nominee.

Immigration has been a defining issue in a campaign before, and the consequences transformed the Democratic Party.

The animosity between William Howard Taft and Theodore Roosevelt changed the primary process forever.

In 1831, a radical third party had a new idea for selecting a presidential candidate, and it’s still in use today: the national nominating convention.

Donald Trump’s candidacy wasn’t the first time the Republican Party was split by an outsider declaring war on the establishment elite.

There are important lessons to be learned from the Democrats’ 1968 Chicago convention.

In 1976, Ronald Reagan found owning the soul of a party isn’t the same as taking home its nomination.