You’ve heard it before: we are living in divided times. Disagreement is part of being a citizen of a democracy, but in today's indisputably hot political climate, young people have stepped up into ...
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Election Day is coming up on Nov. 5, and if you're thinking that today's politics are complicated, consider what happened in Abraham Lincoln's day. After he was elected, but before he could even be ...
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Author or editor of 36 books, many on Lincoln, and chairman of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Foundation This age-old question assumes a chain of events with a big missing link: disunion. Abraham ...
The election of 1860 finally brought the issue of slavery before the American electorate. Abraham Lincoln and the new Republican Party opposed the expansion of slavery. But the Republican Party at ...