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.

Manisha Sinha argues that the stakes in the 2020 presidential election are almost as high as in 1860, when Abraham Lincoln was elected on the eve of the Civil War; what binds these two moments ...

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 ...

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." ...

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.

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 ...

What Happened In The 1860 Presidential Election That Could Repeat Itself In 2016 Most of all though, Cornelius said Lincoln was civil. "He didn't get affected by insults to his person or to his ...

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 2024 election, in Kitschelt’s view, “is the last stand of the nationalist ‘Christian’ white right, as their support is eroding in absolute and relative terms, and of all those who ...

Manisha Sinha argues that the stakes in the 2020 presidential election are almost as high as in 1860, when Abraham Lincoln was elected on the eve of the Civil War; what binds these two moments ...

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 ...