This book, first published in 1998, presents historical analysis of the ideologies of major American parties from the early-nineteenth century onwards.

A union list of serials commencing publication after Dec. 31, 1949.

Vols. 1-3, 5-8 contain the political and literary portions; v. 4 the historical register department, of the numbers published from Oct. 1837 to Dec. 1840.