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Here we are, the site of the Wigwam in which Abraham Lincoln was nominated for president - 1860. JOHN SCHMIDT ... to catch wind of who might lead the party. Clapper wrote that a senator from ...

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 ...

In 1860, Edward, Prince of Wales (later King Edward ... He paid at least one visit to the Tidewater area. He catered a ...

Once again, a major-party convention is taking place in Chicago at a time when many worry about the future of democracy and fear civil disorder during and after the election. But 1860 offers a ...

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But when slavery became a clear partisan issue in the 1860 election ... neither party could ram its preferred policies through with fully disciplined members, there was space for ideas to find ...

In the leadup to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, historians and pundits persistently drew ominous parallels to the disastrous Democratic convention of 1968, when police brutalized ...

As our party-creeds are commonly represented less by ideas than by persons ... fail to see any logical sequence from 1789 to 1815 or 1860. If Mr. Bell loves the Constitution, Mr. Breckinridge ...