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 ...

Newspaper editor Horace Greeley unsuccessfully ran against incumbent Ulysses S. Grant in November 1872. Twenty-four days ...

An introduction to the 1860 election is featured. Author and history professor Rachel Shelden talked about the issue of slavery at the time, the secession of several states, and the Civil War. An ...

Allan Lichtman, the historian who correctly predicted the outcome of 9 out of the 10 most recent presidential elections, has ...

My guess is that neither the poisoning of reservation land, nor the threat of future domestic terrorism, will come up at ...

"The Republican Wigwam at Chicago in which the Republican Convention will be Held--May 16, 1860." [exterior] | Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division So far, Vice President Harris ...

The President's objections to the British Minister's three propositions have been well taken. They are objections which have been urged over and over again in the columns of the TIMES, and are not ...

Thomas Milton Gatch, 1860-1865 2nd President Thomas Gatch first served as an acting president of Willamette University at the age of 27, upon the resignation of Hoyt on September 26, 1860. Gatch, ...

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Even so, Republican delegates traveled to the city in 1860 to find a candidate for president, beginning a tradition of Chicago presidential nominating conventions that would continue for the next ...

A variety of petty accusations current in Southern papers -- such as the Vice-President having joined in a petition for mercy to JOHN BROWN, having supported General TAYLOR, and similar offences ...