Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Wide Awakes were a series of clubs of mostly young men in their teens and early twenties, who organized parades throughout ...

A delicate maneuver has ensured Libertyville’s tie to an influential grass-roots movement that helped elect Abraham Lincoln president in 1860 will be preserved. The link is a nearly 6-foot-by-6-foot ...

Preface -- Republican storm rising? -- Democrats' trials and tribulations -- Democrats' nominations : Act I -- The third way -- Republicans choose an "available" man -- Democrats' nominations : Act II ...

"A special publication of The Library of America." Introduction -- Introduction of Abraham Lincoln at Cooper Union (1860) / William Cullen Bryant -- From Live of Abraham Lincoln (1860) / William Dean ...

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 ...