“Abe Lincoln in Illinois” is a 1938 play that is essentially a pre-presidency biography of Abraham Lincoln. ... In 1860 it was the looming Civil War, ... In this election year, ...

Recalling the words of Abe Lincoln as Election Day approaches | 60 Minutes 01:12. Tonight, candidates in the mid-term elections are approaching the end of the trail and voters the end of their ropes.

Looking at a picture of Abraham Lincoln in October 1860, the 11-year-old Grace Bedell claimed to have solved the problem of Lincoln’s face and wrote him a letter to tell him about it. The ...

Former President Donald Trump has suggested that he would easily win a presidential election against a hypothetical combined ticket of former presidents Abraham Lincoln and George Washington ...

AUDIT USA encourages election officials, candidates, researchers, the media, and voters to use ABE to conduct random digital precinct audits as a check and verification of election results.

In his 1860 endorsement of Abraham Lincoln, The Atlantic's founding editor predicted, accurately, that the coming election would be "a turning-point in our history." ...

Whenever Abe Lincoln’s name is mentioned or one views politics and all those problems associated with the American political scene as it has evolved, one must wonder what might come next.

Abraham Lincoln, left, played in the third act of Berkshire Theatre Group’s production of “Abe Lincoln in Illinois” by Robert G. McKay, counsels his son Robert Lincoln (Brandon Dial).

House Speaker Mike Johnson on Sunday insisted the US “can’t go on like this’’ after the attempted assassination of Donald Trump — and likened the former president to Abraham Lincoln.

Grace inked the letter on Oct. 15, 1860, when Lincoln was locked in a pivotal race. He ran as the Republican nominee against three other men: ... Silly or not, he grew a beard and won the election.

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 ...

Steve Inskeep talks to Sheila Smith, senior fellow in Asia-Pacific Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, about what's next after the party previously led by Shinzo Abe won Japan's election.