With Election Day just around the corner, thoughts from historian Jon Meacham, whose new book chronicles the life and evolution of President Abraham Lincoln: He thought everything was over.

Two weeks after the election, a gathering in Gettysburg ... Subtitled “The Untold History of Abraham Lincoln,” the film gathers an array of historians to argue that Lincoln had romantic ...

The election of Lincoln prompted the South to begin to withdraw ... Major Acts In practical terms, the achievements of Abraham Lincoln are mammoth, yet simple to describe: he confronted the secession ...

The political event which, of all others, they most deprecate, is the election of ABRAHAM LINCOLN to a second term of office. As it is with them, so is it with their Northern sympathizers.

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 ...

When talking with audiences recently I’ve sometimes begun by asking people what they know about Abraham Lincoln ... lost the nativist counties and the election. But many nativists became ...

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 ...

Former President Donald Trump has suggested that he would easily win a presidential election against a hypothetical combined ticket of former presidents Abraham Lincoln and George Washington.

In moments of national tension and division, it’s natural to seek the counsel of those who’ve navigated even darker times. As America faces yet another contentious election, I found myself ...

A new book delves into that short span of time between Abraham Lincoln’s election and the start of the Civil War, calling it “a political horror story.” It’s a reminder that we often don’t see a ...

But will the election of Mr. Lincoln endanger the Union? It is not a little remarkable, that, as the prospect of his success increases, the menaces of secession grow fainter and less frequent.

An answer is offered by Abraham Lincoln. One hundred sixty years ago, the fate of the nation hung on a presidential election, as it does now, and Lincoln, like Mr. Biden, was a lame duck — or at ...