Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! An introduction to the 1860 election is featured. Author and history professor Rachel Shelden talked about the issue of slavery at the time, the ...
Newspaper editor Horace Greeley unsuccessfully ran against incumbent Ulysses S. Grant in November 1872. Twenty-four days ...
An introduction to the 1860 election is featured. Author and history professor Rachel Shelden talked about the issue of slavery at the time, the secession of several states, and the Civil War. An ...
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 ...
Throughout the early days of Arkansas' statehood leading up to the Civil War, a powerful group of Democrats known as the "The ...
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.
ISLIP, LONG ISLAND, Aug. 20, 1860. GENTLEMEN: Although absent from ... who prefer LINCOLN's election to that of BRECKINRIDGE, and the small number of old Fillmore Know-Nothings, who now call ...
Once again, a major-party convention is taking place in Chicago at a time when many worry about the future of democracy and fear civil disorder during and after the election. But 1860 offers a ...
There isn't one solution to galvanizing the electorate; it's more of a suite of reforms, says Editorials Editor Ginnie Graham ...
But there was another nationwide organized outbreak of political fervor when many young people took to the streets amid the chaotic months leading up to the 1860 election of Abraham Lincoln.
A crowd attended Wednesday’s Luzerne County Election Board meeting to weigh in on the elimination of mail ballot drop boxes ...
TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of ...