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 ...

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THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION of 1860 saw Abraham Lincoln seeking his first term with the country deeply divided over slavery. This campaign badge bears a tintype—or tinted metal—photograph taken by ...

Preface -- Republican storm rising? -- Democrats' trials and tribulations -- Democrats' nominations : Act I -- The third way -- Republicans choose an "available" man -- Democrats' nominations : Act II ...

Addressing supporters in Gettysburg, Pa., Rick Santorum invoked Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg address. He also recalled the election of 1860 — when Lincoln was first elected, and after which the ...

The Presidential Election of 1860 proved the most divisive in U.S. history, with the election of Abraham Lincoln triggering the secession of Southern states. But how did it play out at the polls?

A delicate maneuver has ensured Libertyville’s tie to an influential grass-roots movement that helped elect Abraham Lincoln president in 1860 will be preserved. The link is a nearly 6-foot-by-6-foot ...

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"This work utilizes newspaper accounts from across America, journals and diaries of his contemporaries, and correspondence. Lincoln's speeches also appear here as they did in newspapers in 1860 and ...

BLOOMINGTON — On Nov. 21, 1860, president-elect Abraham Lincoln made his last appearance in Bloomington, a city that meant much to his legal and political career. Since the late 1830s, Lincoln had ...