Ours isn’t the first time when political opponents are labeled demonic, says scholar and author Michael E. Heyes.

Charles Sumner is best known as the statesman caned within an inch of his life on the Senate floor for speaking against the expansion of slavery.  Sumner counted among his friends Ralph Waldo Emerson, ...

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In 1860, after Republican Abraham Lincoln was elected president, the Southern, Democratic-controlled states seceded, leading to the Civil War and the legal end of slavery.

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, and ...

Abraham Lincoln embodied everything that’s great about America: He was courageous, compassionate, wise and quite likely gay. “Lover of Men” (in theaters now) is a revealing new documentary ...

The letter was never signed and sent—just one example of how Lincoln’s legendary emotional discipline enabled him to rise above mundane arguments and focus on a larger mission.

What’s needed is a reminder that a political party can act independently and wisely to serve the national interest at a crucial juncture. We’ve just seen one.

In 2020, the GOP didn’t bother to write a party platform, and this year, the party of Abraham Lincoln will nominate a candidate who led an insurrection against the federal government.

Washington Square, Ottawa, Illinois, Aug. 21, 1858 In Ottawa, the site of his first debate with Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln made the grand entrance.

That party died long ago. Republican Abraham Lincoln served as president from 1861 until he was assassinated in 1865.