During this year’s presidential contest, Abraham Lincoln’s name has been brandished by both candidates, but a recent discovery of rare documents at the Museum of Darien offers a true glimpse ...

Lincoln won with 1,866,452 votes without carrying a single Southern state. Douglas, the candidate of some Northern and Western factions of the Democratic party who was more tolerant of slavery ...

The pandemic has put us in the habit of adding the word "unprecedented" to everything. But next week's contentious, life-altering and sure-to-be-ugly election is not unprecedented when it comes to ...

University of Nevada, Las Vegas Professor Michael Green taught a class on Abraham Lincoln and the 1860 presidential election. He described the political climate of the antebellum era, background ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Manisha Sinha argues that the stakes in the 2020 presidential election are almost as high as in 1860, when Abraham Lincoln was elected on the eve of the Civil War; what binds these two moments ...

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 ...

Abraham Lincoln made a strong impression on the nation with his famous Cooper Union address on Feb. 7, 1860, in New York City, where he argued that the framers of the Constitution had not wanted ...

A framed vote tabulation document in the office of Boone County Clerk Kenny Brown from the presidential election of Nov. 6, 1860, shows that Republican Abraham Lincoln received one vote in Boone ...

Manisha Sinha argues that the stakes in the 2020 presidential election are almost as high as in 1860, when Abraham Lincoln was elected on the eve of the Civil War; what binds these two moments ...