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.

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.

Those kids in Hartford were busily sending out ... of democracy and fear civil disorder during and after the election. But 1860 offers a clear lesson: Conventions and campaigns — especially ...

Election Day will shape their future. How much does America’s youngest generation really need to know?

There isn't one solution to galvanizing the electorate; it's more of a suite of reforms, says Editorials Editor Ginnie Graham ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of ...

The Washington County Election Commission partnered with the Fayetteville Public Library to teach kids about voting.

Sonoma State political science professor David McCuan Credit: Courtesy of David McCuan This fall’s course comes ahead of what McCuan’s syllabus calls “the most important election since 1860” — the ...