But the crisis came four years later, in 1860. Abraham Lincoln, ... He was president throughout the 1860 election but wasn’t even up for re-election after Democrats refused to renominate him.

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 ...

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 ...

It's a good thing too, because Lincoln - running against three other candidates - won the 1860 Presidential Election with just 39% of the vote. Cornelius did the math and said that's happened 18 ...

"On November 6, 1860, voters went to the ballot box to cast their votes for President of the United States," notes an article at the website history.com. "Lincoln won the election in an electoral ...

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 ...

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 ...

In downtown Savannah, Ga., on Nov. 8, 1860, under a huge flag inscribed with the motto “DON’T TREAD ON ME,” throngs cheered for a speaker who proclaimed: “The election of Abraham Lincoln ...

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 ...

Abraham Lincoln's election provoked secession all right (unjustifiably, ... What we can say, grounded firmly in evidence, is that without a Lincoln victory in November 1860, ...

Lincoln, of course, won that 1860 election when he cobbled together 180 electoral votes even though he lost the popular vote in a four-way race in which North-South geography was critically ...

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 ...