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Historian Ted Widmer traced Abraham Lincoln’s trip to Washington through a divided country before his first inauguration in 1861. The Virginia Center for Civil War Studies at Virginia Tech U…

Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 presidential election over three challengers with less than 40 percent of the popular vote and without a single electoral vote from a slave state. His transition…

A panel of historians discussed several of the most contested presidential elections in American history: 1800, 1824, 1860, and 1876. They compared the elections to each other and to the 202…