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 ...

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 ...

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 Atlantic ’s editor endorsed Abraham Lincoln for the presidency in the 1860 election, predicting that it would prove to be “a turning-point in our history.” ...

To wit: When Abraham Lincoln won the election of 1860 and prepared to take the reins from James Buchanan, who had kept a promise he made in his inaugural address not run for a second term, we ...

The claim: 10 states removed Abraham Lincoln from the ballot in the 1860 presidential election. A Dec. 21, 2023, Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows an image of President Abraham ...

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 ...

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 ...

There are many parallels between 1860 and 2020. Let’s hope there aren’t too many. By Ted Widmer Dr. Widmer is the author of “Lincoln on the Verge: Thirteen Days to Washington.” Long before ...

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 ...

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