Early political parties: the views of the founders
Quids, workingmen, anti-masons and nullifiers: America's earliest third parties and factions
The struggle for freedom: the Liberty Party
Barnburners and conscience Whigs: Martin Van Buren and the Free Soil Party in 1848
Free Democrats, southern rights and native Americans: third-party movements in the early 1850s
Parties in disarray: the nativist movement gains ground
The brass-knuckle crusade: the emergence of the know-nothing party
A fleeting three-party system: know-nothings and republicans replace the Moribund Whigs
Rising from the ashes: John Bell and the Constitutional unionists of 1860
The Civil War years: the national union party, copperheads and the Cleveland 400
The liberal republican movement: reformers versus politicians
The Prohibition and Labor Reform parties: new political movements begin to take shape
Victoria Woodhull and the emergence of feminist politics: free love, spiritualism and equal rights in the 1872 presidential campaign
The birth of the Greenback Party: agrarian and currency reformers enter the fray
The Workingmen's Party of the United States: the nation's original Marxist party
The Iowa insurgent: the Greenback-Labor Party at high tide
John P. St. John & "Beast" Butler: the prohibition and anti-monopoly parties in 1884
Spoilers: third-party candidates wreck havoc on the two-party system.