A delicate maneuver has ensured Libertyville’s tie to an influential grass-roots movement that helped elect Abraham Lincoln ...

Preface -- Republican storm rising? -- Democrats' trials and tribulations -- Democrats' nominations : Act I -- The third way -- Republicans choose an "available" man -- Democrats' nominations : Act II ...

THE POLITICAL turmoil that erupted over Franklin Pierce’s anti-slavery comments spoken at a Democratic Party gathering in New Boston in January, 1852, faded as soon as he won the presidential election ...

"This work utilizes newspaper accounts from across America, journals and diaries of his contemporaries, and correspondence. Lincoln's speeches also appear here as they did in newspapers in 1860 and ...

In the election of 1860, Mr. Abraham Lincoln, Illinois attorney, was elected to the presidency of the 33 states of the United States of America. Before being even inaugurated on ...

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BLOOMINGTON — On Nov. 21, 1860, president-elect Abraham Lincoln made his last appearance in Bloomington, a city that meant much to his legal and political career. Since the late 1830s, Lincoln had ...

In August 1864, Union morale about the Civil War was so low that Republican Party leaders, including Abraham Lincoln, ...

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SEEMED TO JUST MARCH AWAY. SO WHERE IS THE LINCOLN DRUM? SO THE LINCOLN DRUM WAS CREATED FOR ABRAHAM LINCOLN FOR HIS CAMPAIGN IN 1860. IT WAS MADE USING A RAIL THAT HE ACTUALLY HAD SPLIT HIMSELF. AND ...