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Corey Brooks

Corey M. Brooks is Assistant Professor of History at York College of Pennsylvania and the author of Liberty Power: Antislavery Third Parties and Transformation of American Politics (University of Chicago Press, 2016).

Stories from this author

The split in the Whig party over slavery spelled its doom.

What Can the Collapse of the Whig Party Tell Us About Today’s Politics?

Is the Republican party on the verge of catastrophe? Probably not, if history is any indicator