The election of 1860, when Abraham Lincoln won the presidency ... surrogates visiting multiple times per week in the leadup to Nov. 3. It's possible this outsized influence on the presidential ...

and the heaven blesseth it; ill works shake and tremble at it, and with it is no unrighteous thing." "The Election in November" by James Russell Lowell, The Atlantic Monthly; October, 1860.

If you're not on our team, you're evil." The election of 1860 had its genteel moments. Visiting his local polling place in Springfield on Nov. 6, 1860, Lincoln voted a straight Republican ticket ...

And on Election Day, his silence continued. He made no campaign appearances in battleground states nor played a friendly game of basketball. Things were different then. On Nov. 6, 1860 ...

it is worthwhile to remember that Lincoln's election did not trigger the war. More than six months elapsed between the casting of ballots in November 1860 and the firing on Fort Sumter in April 1861.

For generations, scholars have deconstructed Lincoln’s every move on that fateful Election Day ... a job as a newspaper reporter, and in November 1860, was given an assignment that would ...

OFFICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, No. 7 Broad-street, Thursday, Nov. 1, 1860. To John A. Kennedy, Esq., General Superintendent of Police: DEAR SIR -- On election nights our messengers have ...

Editor Charles Mitchell discussed the election of 1860. The National Civil War Museum in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, hosted this event. Editor Charles Mitchell discussed the election of 1860.

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 ...

The election of November may prove a Culloden ... though the uninitiated fail to see any logical sequence from 1789 to 1815 or 1860. If Mr. Bell loves the Constitution, Mr. Breckinridge is ...