Description 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 ...

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 ...

In 1860, Abraham Lincoln (and the Republican Party) stood as the only viable alternative to the moral indifference of Illinois Senator Stephen Douglas’s “popular sovereignty” and the pro-slavery ...

The man compared the situation with the 1860 election, and said President Abraham Lincoln was removed from ballots. "The last time Democrats removed a Republican from the ballot was 1860," he said.

The claim: 10 states removed Abraham Lincoln from the ballot in the 1860 presidential election A Dec. 21, 2023, Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows an image of President Abraham Lincoln.

“Abe Lincoln in Illinois” is a 1938 play that is essentially a pre-presidency biography of Abraham Lincoln. It is, amazingly, enlightening to contemporary audiences.

Lincoln traveled to Michigan at least twice, never during his presidency. But artifacts connected to his life can be found in metro Detroit.

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 ...

By 1860, the year Lincoln won the White House, more than five million had settled here from overseas. None encountered walls, border patrols, razor wire, or major barriers to residency and ...

Lincoln won the presidential election of 1860 without carrying any Southern states, and politicians from the region immediately became more open when discussing rebellion.

In the high-stakes presidential election of 1860, Abraham Lincoln’s candidacy was boosted by the zeal of young supporters who rallied in groups.

The Wide Awakes were a series of clubs of young men who organized parades throughout Northern towns and cities in support of anti-slavery candidates such as Abraham Lincoln.