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New York City’s mayoral primary to be decided by a ranked choice count after no Democrat gets a majority of the vote.
The Fourth Era isn't a friendly time for a throwback pol like Cassidy. He'll need DC money and the legacy media in order to ...
Today is the 174th day of 2025. There are 191 days left in the year. 2008: A Pakistani court rules that former Prime Minister ...
Examines the build-up to the Civil War: slavery, the Missouri Compromise, abolitionism, and key events like the Dred Scott decision and the election of Lincoln led to secession. The world’s ...
"Indepedency," an exhibit with flags related to Abraham Lincoln and George Washington, is at Southampton Arts Center through ...
The 1860 election, a four-way contest with an unlikely winner, saw a former one-term congressman vaulted into the presidency. It was a time when sectional conflicts were at a peak, ...
What started as a small group of young men demonstrating during the 1860 election, snowballed into a mass movement of working-class Americans marching to end slavery. They called themselves the Wide ...
The New York Times has endorsed candidates in every U.S. presidential election since 1860, contrary to online posts saying its support for U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election is ...
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." ...
In the months following Lincoln’s election — and before his inauguration in March 1861 — seven Southern states, led by South Carolina on Dec. 20, 1860, seceded, setting the stage for the ...
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 ...