On May 20, 1862, President Lincoln grabbed his pen and changed America forever. Congress tried to pass homestead bills three ...

Asked what a world without judicial independence would look like, Justice Clint Bolick offered an ominous answer. "It looks ...

Known nationally for his opposition to desegregation and federal civil rights mandates, Wallace used Wisconsin as a political ...

Then, Lincoln received 5,128 votes, or 47%, in a four-way election. Lincoln easily carried the commonwealth of Pennsylvania and its critical 26 electoral votes, taking 51.75% of the popular vote.

When President Abraham Lincoln ran for re-election in 1864, Republicans throughout the nation printed ballots with pro-war and pro-Union symbols, slogans and song lyrics.

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

In U.S. politics, a contrived or spontaneous event influencing a presidential election has been termed an "October Surprise." Like the upcoming election only weeks away, the election of 1864 was ...

That same year, Missouri became the first Union state to allow it. But there was a special push in 1864 because of worries about Abraham Lincoln’s re-election.

Arizona’s Civil War-era ban on nearly all abortions is officially repealed as of Saturday.The long-dormant law had no exceptions for rape and incest, only for the life of the mother.

A new exhibition at the Smithsonian's National Postal Museum is a reminder that voting by mail with absentee ballots in the U.S. goes back more than 160 years before the COVID-19 pandemic.

An envelope used during the 1864 election to mail a sheet tallying the votes of Civil War soldiers from Ohio’s Highland County at a Union Army field hospital in Georgia Zayrha Rodriguez / NPR ...

The 1864 election was at the height of the Civil War. President Abraham Lincoln sought reelection which prompted debate about voting by mail, seditious conspiracies, disinformation and vote tampering.