and the heaven blesseth it; ill works shake and tremble at it, and with it is no unrighteous thing." "The Election in November" by James Russell Lowell, The Atlantic Monthly; October, 1860.

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 ...

Author and history professor Rachel Shelden compares and contrasts the election of 1860 to today. Author and history professor Rachel Shelden compares and contrasts the election of 1860 to today.

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 ...

The election of a Republican, Abraham Lincoln, as President in 1860 sealed the deal. His victory, without a single Southern electoral vote, was a clear signal to the Southern states that they had ...

See how changes in voter turnout and support could shift the outcome of the 2020 election. By Nigel Chiwaya Share this: 0 states have flipped Start with the results of the previous election ...

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With the Labor Day weekend just days away, it's time for one last beach getaway, back-to-school preparations, and the presidential election entering a critical phase with only ten weeks until Nov. 5.

Tuesday, Nov. 5, is Election Day – but if Americans vote like they did in the last two election cycles, most of them will have already cast a ballot before the big day. Early voting had been ...

The election system here refers to the way citizens choose public servants of the state. The election system of the People’s Republic of China here refers to the election of deputies to the ...

Woodrow Wilson, then governor of New Jersey, was the Democratic Party's candidate for the presidential election of 1912. The country faced problems that the founding fathers had never imagined.