November 6th has witnessed a plethora of significant events that have shaped the course of history across the globe.One of ...

None other than Abraham Lincoln owed his 1860 election to this kind of movement. New research is proving that youth activism ...

The lame-duck period in the US is longer than in other Western democracies, which tend to make the transition over a period ...

Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12 ... his party’s nomination for the President of the United States in the 1860 ...

But will the election of Mr. Lincoln endanger the Union ... The Atlantic Monthly; October, 1860.

The US presidential elections of recent years have been some of most contested – and divisive – in history. Here, historian ...

no one had a clue who would win going into election day. The words of the winners, stirring by the standards of today’s ...

A Republican lawyer from the backwoods who produced the most enduringly elegant phrases of modern rhetoric, Lincoln's surprising election in 1860 helped spark the war itself. His Gettysburg ...

Though Lincoln was involved with the Whig Party (which was formed to oppose Andrew Jackson and his use of presidential power) earlier on his career, he switched parties becoming the first Republican ...

When reviewing the four-month period from the 1860 election to Lincoln’s inauguration, one can’t help but conclude that the Civil War was completely avoidable. There was no sound cause for ...

The election of a Republican, Abraham Lincoln, as President in 1860 sealed the deal. His victory, without a single Southern electoral vote, was a clear signal to the Southern states that they had ...