The Wide Awakes: The 1860 Election Was Influenced By Young People Advocating Against Slavery
None other than Abraham Lincoln owed his 1860 election to this kind of movement. New research is proving that youth activism ...
The Atlantic8y
The Election in November
and the heaven blesseth it; ill works shake and tremble at it, and with it is no unrighteous thing." "The Election in November" by James Russell Lowell, The Atlantic Monthly; October, 1860.
The Boston Globe20d
Ahead of unprecedented election, looking for lessons in America’s past
We’re entering the last nervous days of a season of contention and of mystery, upheaval, and dread, a time when the country could lurch in entirely different directions or completely lose its way.
The Times of Israel21d
It is time to vote in the most important election since 1860
because it is the most important election since 1860. About the Author My understanding of politics, economics, geopolitics, political theory is grounded in my undergraduate and graduate study of ...
PBS10y
The Civil War By the Numbers
4:1 — The ratio of people who attended church weekly to those who voted in the 1860 election 2.5 — Approximate percentage of the American population that died in the Civil War 7 million ...
EdSource2mon
Q&A: How one Cal State professor plans to teach politics during ‘the most important election since 1860’
Sonoma State political science professor David McCuan Credit: Courtesy of David McCuan This fall’s course comes ahead of what McCuan’s syllabus calls “the most important election since 1860” — the ...