Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! An introduction to the 1860 election is featured. Author and history professor Rachel Shelden talked about the issue of slavery at the time, the ...

1860: Republicans: Abraham Lincoln The Republican Party absorbed anti-slavery Whigs and most Know-Nothings. It became more moderate in its stance on the exclusion of slavery and denounced John ...

In 1860, on the cusp of the Civil War ... ready to receive and defend them. Inside the Republican Wigwam, the party chose Lincoln as nominee, after some complicated wrangling.

The Republican party, as such, has never been committed to it, nor have those among them who accept it as abstractly and theoretically true, ever sought to give it practical effect. No political ...

When the US Constitution was written in 1787, the Electoral College was created to pick the US president using a majority ...

Everyone knows the two major players in American politics: the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. At all elections ...

The Republican Party were not popular in the South. Southerners believed that they wished to abolish slavery. In the 1860 election the Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln won all the Northern states.

Here we are, the site of the Wigwam in which Abraham Lincoln was nominated for president - 1860. JOHN SCHMIDT ... hopefuls were nominated to both Republican and Democratic ballots.

In a resurfaced video from a 2020 event, Mark Robinson boldly stated he would 'absolutely' prefer a return to an America ...

The League of Women voters in 1952 hosted the first televised presidential debate in American history for a nationwide ...

As we continue our look at politics in Trousdale County, we remind readers that we started out as a part of Sumner County.

The 2024 General Election will be held on Tuesday, November 5. Polls will open at 6:30 a.m. and close at 7:30 p.m. According to the State Board of Elections, any voter in line at a polling place to ...