Once upon a time, the Prince of Wales came to you might say a magical place called The Mansion House hotel in Mount Carbon, ...

After he was elected president in 1860, Abraham Lincoln was faced with filling patronage positions in the Washington Territory. Just eight years old, the Washington Territory needed territorial suprem ...

We feature a special broadcast marking the Juneteenth federal holiday that commemorates the day in 1865 when enslaved people ...

He’s going to this election with a policy to raise taxes for 14 million Australian taxpayers.” Mr Chalmers and Mr Taylor butted horns over taxation during the debate. Picture: NewsWire/ David ...

A top paediatrician has backed an MP’s plans to introduce a smacking ban in England, saying it puts children at risk of ‘really significant physical harm’. The Children’s Act 2004 made it unlawful for ...

Historians may place the 2024 election, or the 2016-24 sequence, in significance for the United States on a par with the elections of 1860, 1876, 1896 and 1932.

The US presidential elections of recent years have been some of most contested – and divisive – in history. Here, historian Peter Ling looks back at other controversial elections in history, from ...

“By the time Abraham Lincoln was elected in 1860, newspapers carried news of the victorious campaign the day after the election,” Kastor added. “A quick and clear outcome was a symbol of a ...

In his 1860 endorsement of Abraham Lincoln, The Atlantic's founding editor predicted, accurately, that the coming election would be "a turning-point in our history." ...

You’ve heard it before: we are living in divided times. Disagreement is part of being a citizen of a democracy, but in today's indisputably hot political climate, young people have stepped up into ...

The Wide Awakes symbol was a single eye, open to the danger slavery posed. ... But many Americans saw the 1860 election as an opportunity to turn the tide against Slave Power.