Author Ed Achorn will discuss his latest book, "The Lincoln Miracle," at 3 p.m. on April 6 at the Sudbury Grange.

It’s by the American historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, and it tells the story of Abraham Lincoln’s struggle to win the ...

On the wintry morning of March 11, 1854, Milwaukee abolitionist newspaper editor Sherman Booth received an urgent telegram ...

Democratic Party History. The Democratic party is the oldest existing political party in America. Democrats have won 19 of 42 presidential elections since the party first ran a pr ...

Achorn's book details the intense political drama surrounding Abraham Lincoln’s Republican Party nomination for the 1860 presidential election. He was seen as an underdog, having lost previous ...

Now, Trump appears to be taking over Congress’ core powers, including taxing and spending. Typically, Congress passes a budget, and the president can sign or veto the bill. Once the budget is passed ...

President Donald Trump's assertion that Canada should become the 51st state would likely lead to major Democratic electoral ...

It does not become us to speak, or to assume to speak, for the Republican Party of the United States ... and proclaim as our standard bearer for 1860, Mr. BATES or any other person who labored ...

From where I sit right now, inside the second floor of The Republican’s 1860 Main St. headquarters, the newsroom before me is the sprawling, open space where reporters, photographers, editors, copy ...

Sandford. But opposition to the expansion of slavery was the unifying principle of the young Republican Party. So, during the election of 1860, Lincoln argued that Dred Scott was not binding on ...