Democrats never really had a candidate to run against Abraham Lincoln in 1860, but they still managed to get three electoral ...

Stephen A. Douglas, future U.S. senator and 1860 presidential candidate of the Northern Democrats, moved to Winchester in 1833 at age 20 to teach school. There is a statue of Douglas in the town ...

It’s a slip, not a fall,” Abraham Lincoln said after his loss in his legendary 1858 Illinois Senate contest against Stephen Douglas. Liz Cheney apparently has the same attitude after her ...