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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
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| Modified link of Web site: Open Washington Pressbooks - U.S. History I: Pre-Colonial to 1865 - The Bank War and Rise of the Whigs. | Jul 03, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: American Battlefield Trust - The Whig Party. | Mar 13, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Open Washington Pressbooks - U.S. History I: Pre-Colonial to 1865 - The Bank War and Rise of the Whigs. | Jan 17, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: LSU Scholarly Repository - Whig History: Antebellum Politics And The Collapse Of Compromise (PDF). | Dec 06, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Historic UK - The Whigs. | Sep 13, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Missouri Encyclopedia - The Whig Party in Missouri. | May 16, 2025 | ||
| Questions and answers added. | Feb 20, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Project MUSE - The Whigs and the Press, 1800-50 (PDF). | Feb 12, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of Michigan Library - The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party: Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil War by Michael Holt. | Dec 21, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia - Whig Party. | Oct 24, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Encyclopedia of Alabama - Whig Party. | May 28, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History - The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party. | Feb 16, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: The American Presidency Project - Whig Party Platform of 1852. | Jan 05, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: George Mason University - Department of English - Whig and Tory. | Nov 10, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Humanities LibreTexts - Rise of the Whigs. | Nov 07, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Digital History - The Whigs. | Jun 20, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: North Carolina History Project - Whig Party, historical American political party. | May 12, 2023 | ||
| Media added. | Jun 07, 2021 | ||
| Media added. | May 22, 2020 | ||
| Add new Web site: US Constitution and Government - Whig Party. | Nov 14, 2019 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Oct 05, 2018 | ||
| Add new Web site: CALS Encyclopedia of Arkansas - Whig Party. | May 23, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: Spartacus Educational - Whig Party. | May 23, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: NCpedia - Whig Party. | May 23, 2014 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |
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