He thought everything was over. It was the summer of 1864, and Abraham Lincoln believed his campaign for re-election amid the Civil War was doomed: The president was to be defeated, his policies ...

Remember, the election was about the very existence of our democracy, against the threat of “Hitler,” President Trump. As much as some folks may revile the results of these elections, from Lincoln’s ...

In the election of 1860, Republican Abraham Lincoln defeated Illinois Senator Stephen Douglas of the Democratic Party, Vice President and Southern Democratic Party candidate John Breckinridge, ...

The political event which, of all others, they most deprecate, is the election of ABRAHAM LINCOLN to a second term of office. As it is with them, so is it with their Northern sympathizers.

A new book delves into that short span of time between Abraham Lincoln’s election and the start of the Civil War, calling it “a political horror story.” It’s a reminder that we often don’t see a ...

None other than Abraham Lincoln owed his 1860 election to this kind of movement. New research is proving that youth activism played a critical role in the form of an organized movement who called ...

Gloves Lincoln Wore to Ford’s Theater Sell for $1.5 Million at Auction. More than 100 relics connected to President Abraham Lincoln brought in $7.9 million, auctioneers said.

In 1864, Lincoln won Illinois and the presidential election. There were many reasons for this, but one may have been his deliberate appeals to voters who seemed beyond reach.

As America faces yet another contentious election, I found myself wondering what advice Abraham Lincoln — our 16th president, who guided the nation through its greatest crisis — might offer to ...

An answer is offered by Abraham Lincoln. One hundred sixty years ago, the fate of the nation hung on a presidential election, as it does now, and Lincoln, like Mr. Biden, was a lame duck — or at ...