Explore the comprehensive list of Mayors of New York City (NYC) up to 2025. Discover their terms in office and learn about ...

Examines the build-up to the Civil War: slavery, the Missouri Compromise, abolitionism, and key events like the Dred Scott decision and the election of Lincoln led to secession. The world’s ...

Images provided by Q. David Bowers. In 1860 in Cincinnati, die sinker and token maker John Stanton tapped the engraving talents of Benjamin True to create a series of 22-millimeter tokens.

The following table presents a comparison of the votes of 1860 and 1856, by counties, omitting the five towns from which no returns for Governor have been received: GOVERNOR, 1860. PRESIDENT, 1856.

Democrats never really had a candidate to run against Abraham Lincoln in 1860, but they still managed to get three electoral votes with four going to the Republicans. Northern Democrats were backing ...

An echo of the mugwump defection played out locally in Muncie’s municipal election of 1891. After Ellis announced his new postmaster gig, Republicans nominated John Eiler for mayor.

Statistics show that approximately 70% of Republicans believe Trump’s claim that the 2020 election was stolen from him, despite all of the legal challenges that were defeated–many of them by ...

The New York Times has endorsed candidates in every U.S. presidential election since 1860, contrary to online posts saying its support for U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election is ...

Their efforts led to one of the highest voter turnouts in U.S. history, with a staggering 82% of eligible voters casting their ballots in 1860. On election day itself, the Wide Awake clubs helped ...

The shadowy, pro-slavery politicians who held the United States hostage in the name of expanding slavery’s influence became known as “Slave Power.” And by 1860, the Slave Power cast a shadow ...

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, and ...

The president’s name was James Buchanan, and Larson’s book is about the winter of 1860-61, the four pivotal months between Abraham Lincoln’s election on November 6, 1860 and his inauguration ...