Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Republicans gathered in Milwaukee this week to officially nominate Donald Trump for president, a continuation of the GOP’s ...

Editor’s Note: This is the text of Barry Goldwater’s 1964 Republican National Convention acceptance speech. The 50th anniversary of the convention was yesterday ...

If it was not a new Republican Party that emerged from San Francisco’s Cow Palace last week, it was at least a much different one. It spoke with the accents of small-town America. Its muscle came no ...

Psychological profiling assumed many different forms in the years during and after World War II—from the careful, culturally sophisticated work of psychoanalyst Erik Erikson for the Office of ...

Privatization of the Tennessee Valley Authority became a central theme for Tennessee voters as Republican and Democratic presidential candidates stopped in Tennessee during the 1964 presidential ...

The telephone in the office of Arizona’s Senator Barry Goldwater jingled one morning last week with the kind of invitation that many a Republican on Capitol Hill will await breathlessly during the ...