The Presidential Election of 1860 proved the most divisive in U.S. history, with the election of Abraham Lincoln triggering ...
In U.S. politics, a contrived or spontaneous event influencing a presidential election has been termed an "October Surprise." Like the upcoming election only weeks away, the election of 1864 was ...
Three additional renowned Lincoln authors and historians will highlight the free Benjamin P. Thomas Symposium the following ...
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I recently traveled to Gettysburg, where I walked the fields where so much horror was experienced by so many in those three July days of 1863. I looked over the cemetery where Abraham Lincoln spoke in ...