Today, the America Party is formed to give you back your freedom,” the billionaire SpaceX CEO wrote on X on July 5.

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

News Analysis Ahead of unprecedented election, looking for lessons in America’s past By David M. Shribman Globe Correspondent, Updated November 2, 2024, 3:17 p.m.

What started as a small group of young men demonstrating during the 1860 election, snowballed into a mass movement of working-class Americans marching to end slavery. They called themselves the Wide ...

The New York Times has endorsed candidates in every U.S. presidential election since 1860, contrary to online posts saying its support for U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election is ...

Buchanan also adamantly promised not to seek reelection. The 1860 presidential election marked the first time that a Republican was elected president.

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 ...

The Wide Awakes: The 1860 Election Was Influenced By Young People Advocating Against Slavery The Wide Awakes symbol was a single eye, open to the danger slavery posed.

Description 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 ...

Author and history professor Rachel Shelden talked about who voted in this election and the outcome.

Book Review: The Demon of Unrest by Erik Larson Contemporary lessons from the slave power’s plot to overturn the 1860 election ...