The Whig Party formed out of the National Republican Party, the leaders of which were John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay. They were nationalists, supported internal improvements and moral reforms ...

Taking their cue from Henry Clay, who dubbed his policy program the American System, Whigs argued that the U.S. should consolidate its existing territories by investing in infrastructure (roads ...

As a young Whig, President Lincoln followed the principles of Henry Clay and fed them into his own political and economic thought. But President Lincoln also drew upon the support of economists ...

Divided by Steve Sheinkin and Toby Cypress is a YA nonfiction graphic novel set in 1850s Washington DC, in a polarized nation on its way to Civil War. How very opportune.

Challenges: John Tyler was determined to be the president and not just a stand-in. Although Henry Clay controlled the Whig Party, Tyler refused to allow him to dominate the presidency. Philosophically ...