In the election of 1860, Republican Abraham Lincoln defeated Illinois Senator Stephen Douglas of the Democratic Party, Vice President and Southern Democratic Party candidate John Breckinridge, ...

Presidential Historyian Richard Norton Smith and History Professor Rosalyn Terborg-Penn discuss the country during 1860, the presidential election, and how the Lincolns were viewed in Washington ...

But the tone of the 1860 presidential campaign was anything but moderate. Slavery was the central issue and Lincoln, while he wanted to eventually end the "peculiar institution," favored as an ...

Lincoln, of course, won that 1860 election when he cobbled together 180 electoral votes even though he lost the popular vote in a four-way race in which North-South geography was critically important.

None other than Abraham Lincoln owed his 1860 election to this kind of movement. New research is proving that youth activism played a critical role in the form of an organized movement who called ...

During the election year of 1860, a group of young men sought change. They identified themselves as “Wide Awakes.” In the collections of Pamplin Historical Park and the National Museum of the Civil ...

This was the United States of 1860, as the conflict over slavery threatened to split the nation in two. The election of Abraham Lincoln, the first antislavery president, was met with Southern ...

They convened on April 23, 1860, at Institute Hall on Meeting Street, adjacent to the site of the present-day Circular Congregational Church. Their mission: to nominate a Democratic presidential ...

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Manisha Sinha argues that the stakes in the 2020 presidential election are almost as high as in 1860, when Abraham Lincoln was elected on the eve of the Civil War; what binds these two moments ...

Manisha Sinha argues that the stakes in the 2020 presidential election are almost as high as in 1860, when Abraham Lincoln was elected on the eve of the Civil War; what binds these two moments ...