Unwanted pregnancy, 1775-1792
New party is born, 1792-1796
Heartbeat from power, 1797-1800
New party takes over, 1800-1801
Jeffersonian era begins, 1801-1809
Party stands alone, 1809-1827
Jacksonian Democracy, 1828-1836
Jacksonianism without Jackson, 1837-1844
Manifest Destiny, war and compromise, 1845-1852
Party self-destructs, 1853-1860
Civil War and Peace Democrats, 1861-1868
Wilderness years, 1869-1880
On the road to party recovery, 1881-1896
Bryan era, 1896-1912
Wilson and the New Freedom, 1912-1915
Great War tests the party, 1916-1920
Sidewalks of New York, 1920-1933
FDR and the New Deal, 1933-1939
Democracy fights fascism, 1939-1945
Truman: the buck stops here, 1945-1948
Fair Deal, and end of an era, 1949-1952
In the shadow of a war hero, 1953-1960
JFK: the party bounces back, 1960
Beginning and end of the new frontier, 1961-1963
LBJ: rise and fall of the great society, 1963-1968
Democratic cataclysm, 1968
Reform, but not revival, 1968-1974
Post-Watergate interlude, 1974-1980
Bucking the Reagan revolution 1981-1984
Time for party soul-searching, 1985-1991
Different kind of Democrat, 1992
Looking like America, 1993-1996
Democratic phoenix, 1997-1999
Calamity in 2000.