Authors and historians talked about the impact and significance of the 1864 presidential election. Candidates were Abraham Lincoln and General George McClellan, Lincoln's former commander of the ...

The odds stood against Lincoln for reelection as the Civil War raged on. Will history repeat itself in 2020? Most Americans remember Lincoln as a hero and perhaps our greatest president. But when ...

Elizabeth Varon talked about the 1864 presidential election from the Confederate point of view. Candidates in the 1864 presidential election were Abraham Lincoln and General George McClellan ...

Republican President Abraham Lincoln defeated Democrat challenger Union Gen. George McLellan in the bitterly contested presidential election on this day in history, Nov. 8, 1864.

Sen. Kamala Harris claimed that President Lincoln chose not to nominate a Supreme Court justice until after the election because he wanted the people to vote.

His talk, like his book, began with the evening of January 1, 1864, with Abraham Lincoln and his wife greeting over 6,000 well-wishers and fans to the East Wing of the White House.

Abraham Lincoln was not popular in York County, Pennsylvania, during the Civil War years. Most of the populace tended to be Democrats, particularly in the southern and western townships. The ...

If ABRAHAM LINCOLN shall be superseded by the nominee of the Democratic party, there would almost surely be an abatement of the war, and a resort to negotiation.

In 1864, 160 years ago next week, Syracuse, and the nation, faced another "consequential" Presidential election.

The Election of 1864 One contentious election of the 19th century that produced a significant output of political prints was the 1864 wartime contest between Republican incumbent Abraham Lincoln and ...

How he Stands the Test; his PopularityWe envy not the feelings of any of the maligners of Mr. LINCOLN, whose eyes fell upon that noble passage concerning the President, in the speech of EDWARD ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep on the lessons we can learn from Abraham Lincoln ahead of the 2024 presidential election.