In 1860, Abraham Lincoln (and the Republican Party) stood as the only viable alternative to the moral indifference of Illinois Senator Stephen Douglas’s “popular sovereignty” and the pro-slavery ...

President Abraham Lincoln was not removed from general election ballots in 1860. At that time, political parties distributed their own ballots, which were single-party tickets, and some ...

A previously unpublished letter written by President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil ... predicted would help him win the presidential election. Lincoln was, as it turns out, the first U.S ...

After its 1856 nominee lost, the Republican Party made its presidential debut with Abraham Lincoln in the pivotal election of 1860 ... the campaign slogan of party leader Donald Trump.

But history remembers it for this reason: It’s the site of the “Wigwam” assembly hall, where Abraham Lincoln accepted the Republican presidential nomination on May 18, 1860. Bet you didn’t ...

In 1860, Abraham Lincoln defied the odds by winning the ... he was woefully underestimated. Political slogans and newspaper cartoons depicted him as an ape, a despot, a hick, a coward, and a ...

Abraham Lincoln, George Clark copy after Mathew B. Brady, ambrotype campaign pin, 1860 National Portrait Gallery Just as John F. Kennedy showed Americans how a president could use television to ...

"My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families — second families, perhaps I should say," wrote Lincoln during the 1860 presidential campaign. "When I came of age I did not ...

Probably the greatest example of persistence is Abraham ... the 1848 campaign because he was serving in Congress). 1843: Ran for Congress - lost. One could claim this as a Lincoln failure in ...