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 ...
Newspaper editor Horace Greeley unsuccessfully ran against incumbent Ulysses S. Grant in November 1872. Twenty-four days ...
Although, the Democrats (DNC) and the Republicans (GOP) are presently the two dominant political parties in the USA, our country has additional political parties. These include the Green Party, the ...
In 1860, on the cusp of the Civil War ... Wide Awakes were something new in American politics: A massive, anti-slavery youth movement, uniformed in militaristic black capes and armed with torches ...
Following the election of 1860, the so-called fire-eaters of the planter class had a problem. Even though Lincoln was not ...
TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of ...
THE POLITICS OF NOW features three riveting ... arguably the most consequential since 1860. This fall, The Public is offering up a series of performances that highlight core issues facing our country: ...
Sonoma State political science professor David McCuan Credit: Courtesy of David McCuan This fall’s course comes ahead of what McCuan’s syllabus calls “the most important election since 1860” — the ...
QUEBEC, Sunday, Aug. 26, 1860. A few weeks' sojourn among Canadians ... They form a distinct party of their own in politics, and are an important make-weight, holding completely the balance ...
We’re turning the clock way back this week to the year 1913, to a site in Ridgewood that once was a popular hotel and beer ...
She is a rare breed in politics, a coalition-builder who never sells out her values. Bottom line: Kate is the real thing. Vote for that other “K.H.” — Kate Harrison — this November.
Throughout the early days of Arkansas’ statehood leading up to the Civil War, a powerful group of Democrats known as the “The ...