Listen to Episode 8 of Whistlestop: Subscribe in iTunes ∙ RSS feed ∙ Download ∙ Play in another tab In this episode of Slate's bite-sized podcast about presidential campaign history ...

In 1884, as the Republican nominee for the presidency, James G. Blaine had ... very end of the 1884 campaign that the Democrats secured the ammunition it needed to kill Blaine’s chances for ...

Grover Cleveland was pitted against prominent Republican congressional leader James G. Blaine. It was a knockdown, drag-out war of attrition. In July 1884, the campaign was shaken by a small ...

That nominee was a Republican, James G. Blaine, the election year was 1884, and the campaign by Democrats concentrated on missives that Blaine sent to railroad officials detailing his ...

April White is a historian and senior editor at Atlas Obscura. She is the author of The Divorce Colony: How Women Revolutionized Marriage and Found Freedom on the American Frontier, from which ...

In high-school history textbooks, Senator James G. Blaine’s claim to fame has long ... the necessary two-thirds supermajority in the Senate. Blaine Amendment proponents then moved their campaign to ...

It pitted Democratic New York Governor Grover Cleveland against Republican Senator James G. Blaine ... Where’s my pa?” The Blaine campaign also painted the Democrats as “the party of ...

James G. Blaine did his sharp of speaking last evening in Brooklyn. First he was taken by Chairman Willis of the Campaign Committee to the Clermont-Avenue Rink. There he found an immense audience.

Maine State Historian Earle Shettleworth talked about Maine’s governor’s mansion and its namesake James G. Blaine, an American political fig… read more Maine State Historian Earle ...

Mrs. Clinton and her advisers would do well to look back in history to the travails that cost James G. Blaine, considered ... dogged him throughout the campaign and while other factors contributed ...