The Wide Awakes: The 1860 Election Was Influenced By Young People Advocating Against Slavery. Story by Blake Lindsey, Taylor Malone • 3w. Y ou’ve heard it before: we are living in divided times.

Introduction to the 1860 Presidential Election. An introduction to the 1860 election is featured. Author and history professor Rachel Shelden talked about the issue of slavery at the time, the ...

Author and history professor Rachel Shelden discussed the campaigns for the presidential nominees in the 1860 election. Report Video Issue Javascript must be enabled in order to access C-SPAN videos.

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." ...

It’s fitting, then, that the Northern pushback to expanding slavery came from the 19th century equivalent of “very online” young newspaper readers. Early in the 1860 election, a core of young clerks ...

The Election Returns and the Police. Share full article. Nov. 1, 1860. ... See the article in its original context from November 1, 1860, Page 8 Buy Reprints. View on timesmachine.

On Oct. 3, 1860, more than 12,000 Wide Awakes from six states wearing military hats and black capes marched through New York City’s streets. It was estimated then that the movement had reached ...

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 ...

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 ...