Nor has any president sought to have the election postponed because of a crisis. The election of 1864 went forward despite the Civil War, as did the election of 1944 despite World War II.

For the presidential election of 1864, the Grant Club of San Francisco produced this ballot dramatizing the Battle of Cherbourg, where the Union sank the CSS Alabama. To capture the attention of ...

The episode begins with the presidential election of 1864 that sets Abraham Lincoln against his old commanding general, George McClellan. The stakes are nothing less than the survival of the Union ...