Abraham Lincoln’s Party Politics by Julia Azari February 13, 2015 January 8, 2022. ... Both Whig and Democratic approaches had failed to address the nation’s sectional crisis.

Abraham Lincoln demonstrated an enduring faith in the importance of free elections and democratic political institutions. Today, however, the Republican Party is led by a man who has repudiated ...

“The Republican Party since the time of Abraham Lincoln has championed civil rights, while the Democratic Party prior to the 1960s — when it was forced to accept civil rights — has a dismal ...

The irony for the southern pro-slavery Democrats was that the split in the party helped Abraham Lincoln win the White House. Lincoln only carried 40 percent of the national vote.

Abraham Lincoln was not a third party candidate, certainly not as we would recognize Gary Johnson here in 2016. The guy you’re thinking of is John Bell of the Constitution Union Party.

Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States of America, at the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. ... The Democratic party was the party of the Ku Klux Klan.

Lincoln is the founding father of the Grand Old Party while Donald Trump may be presiding over its demise.

Lincoln sneered, a sarcastic reference to James Sheahan, editor of the Chicago Times, a Democratic Party paper and the Tribune’s chief rival. “I confess,” Lincoln wrote, the consternation ...

A couple admires the statue of Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington ... Zohran Mamdani’s victory is bad for New York and the Democratic Party. June 26, 2025. Opinion. Catherine ...

Frederick Douglass, the most important African-American in the 19th century, was loyal to the Republican Party of Abraham Lincoln’s day, even when it turned disloyal to him.