But there was another nationwide organized outbreak of political fervor when many young people took to the streets amid the chaotic months leading up to the 1860 election of Abraham Lincoln.

faded as soon as he won the presidential election that November. Pierce’s later actions as president would prove that he remained, as always, a solid friend of the southern slaveholders.

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! An introduction to the 1860 election is featured. Author and history professor Rachel Shelden talked about the issue of slavery at the time, the ...

When the US Constitution was written in 1787, the Electoral College was created to pick the US president using a majority ...

There isn't one solution to galvanizing the electorate; it's more of a suite of reforms, says Editorials Editor Ginnie Graham ...

In the election of 1860, Abraham Lincoln ran against John C. Breckinridge (Southern Democrat), John Bell (Constitutional Union), and Stephen A. Douglas (Northern Democrat). At this time, there were ...

Erik Larson (The Demon of Unrest) discussed the tumultuous months between Abraham Lincoln’s election in November 1860 and the attack on Fort Sumter in April 1861. Erik Larson (The Demon of Unrest) ...

In 1860, on the cusp of the Civil War, the Republican National Convention in Chicago not only took a chance on a one-term congressman named Abraham Lincoln, but introduced the nation to one of the ...

Considered one of the nation's greatest presidents, Abraham Lincoln remains ... elegant phrases of modern rhetoric, Lincoln's surprising election in 1860 helped spark the war itself.

Abraham Lincoln won election to the U.S. Congress in 1846 ... Two years later, in 1860, Lincoln was nominated as the Republican presidential candidate. Thanks to a deeply divided opposition ...

1860. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, personally ... and the Southern mind can be more easily reconciled to his election. He is comparatively new and unheard of. His prominent public record of two or three ...

Newspaper editor Horace Greeley unsuccessfully ran against incumbent Ulysses S. Grant in November 1872. Twenty-four days ...