Douglas R. Egerton, Bloomsbury Press, $28 (416p) ISBN 978-1-59691-619-7 The center could not hold amid a flood of passionate intensity recorded in this illuminating study of the 1860 election ...

The Democrats had fractured after nominating Stephen Douglas, ... When the fallout from the 1860 election was said and done, after a bloody four-year conflict, ...

The election of 1860, when Abraham Lincoln won the presidency over Stephen A. Douglas and two others, essentially was a referendum on the expansion of slavery.

Yet one would be hard pressed to come up with a more bitterly divided contest than the election of 1860 ... a Bloomington weekly serving as a voice for the Democratic Party and Stephen Douglas, ...

On April 25, 1861, less than two weeks after the Confederate States of America bombed the federal outpost at Fort Sumter, South Carolina, U.S. Sen. Stephen Douglas addressed the Illinois General As… ...

McClelland then addresses the rematch between the two men in the presidential election of 1860. As he takes us on the campaign trail, we clearly see the bitter rivalry, particularly from Douglas, who ...

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 important.

He lost the presidential election of 1860 to Abraham Lincoln two years after the “Lincoln-Douglas Debates,” in which Douglas argued that each state should be allowed to decide whether to ...

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 ...

Douglas is arguably best known for a series of debates with Abraham Lincoln in 1858. He was a U.S. senator who lost the 1860 presidential election to Lincoln.

His 1860 Democratic presidential nomination split the party in two , guaranteeing victory for Lincoln, the Republican candidate. Lincoln's election sparked the secession of the Deep South and the ...