By Burt Constable 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 ...

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 Lincoln.

Radical southerners viewed Lincoln’s election as an existential threat to slavery, and as such they carried out their promise to secede from the Union and establish a new nation dedicated not to ...

Description Guests discuss the politics involved in the 1860 election and Mary Lincoln’s early days in the White House.