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 ...

I just finished an excellent book titled “Wide Awake’’ by Jon Grinspan about a young man’s movement that helped put Abraham Lincoln in office. James Buchanan was president, so I assume Lancaster was a ...

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 ...

"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 ...

The Heartland is steeped in history, and one moment that occurred almost exactly 167 years ago serves as a prime example.

The Lincoln-Douglas debates turned Abe into a contender for president two years later in 1860. He won that election, making him the nation’s 16th president.

On Sept. 26, 1960, John Kennedy and Richard Nixon met in a CBS television studio in Chicago for a debate that so profoundly altered American politics that it wasn’t until 1976 that any other ...