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 ...

"Indepedency," an exhibit with flags related to Abraham Lincoln and George Washington, is at Southampton Arts Center through ...

Only 4,696 residents decided for Lincoln. That was a far worse percentage of the total vote than in 1860. Then, Lincoln received 5,128 votes, or 47%, in a four-way election.

Yet, Lincoln narrowly won the presidency in 1860, despite not taking a single Southern state. In the first three months after the contentious election, seven states in the South seceded from the ...

The Atlantic ’s editor endorsed Abraham Lincoln for the presidency in the 1860 election, predicting that it would prove to be “a turning-point in our history.” ...

Born in a one-room log cabin in Kentucky, Abraham Lincoln rose to the presidency in 1861. Hulton Archive / Getty Images America’s presidential election is still more than a month away. In the ...

Their efforts led to one of the highest voter turnouts in U.S. history, with a staggering 82% of eligible voters casting their ballots in 1860. On election day itself, the Wide Awake clubs helped ...

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 ...

In the election of 1860, Republican Abraham Lincoln defeated Illinois Senator Stephen Douglas of the Democratic Party, Vice President and Southern Democratic Party candidate John Breckinridge, and ...

The president’s name was James Buchanan, and Larson’s book is about the winter of 1860-61, the four pivotal months between Abraham Lincoln’s election on November 6, 1860 and his inauguration ...

Looking Back 1860 – Abraham Lincoln wins over Reverend Foss in Manchester Aug 25, 2024 Updated Dec 1, 2024 ...