To wit: When Abraham Lincoln won the election of 1860 and prepared to take the reins from James Buchanan, who had kept a promise he made in his inaugural address not run for a second term ...

(James Buchanan finished in last place ... Washington still does pretty well in the rankings. Only Abraham Lincoln edges him out to claim the top spot in C-SPAN’s tally. In fact, the top ...

April 23 marks the birthday of James Buchanan, the man regarded by many ... and he was the President before Abraham Lincoln. It’s that final point that has been the lasting part of the Buchanan ...

James Buchanan. Author: U.S. National Archives ... and he was the president before Abraham Lincoln. It’s that final point that has been the lasting part of the Buchanan presidency, with his ...

James Buchanan served as President of the United States from 1857 to 1861. The Union was torn asunder and it was now up to incoming President Abraham Lincoln to handle the worst crisis the nation ...

Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of 'Team of Rivals,' and Michelle Krowl of the Library of Congress guide us through Lincoln's love for ... Columnist James Hohmann talks every Friday with the author ...

Abraham Lincoln's election in 1860 as an opponent of slavery's expansion prompted South Carolina and six other states to secede and form the Confederacy while Buchanan was still in office ...

James Buchanan is often saddled with the title ... Buchanan made this remark to his successor, Abraham Lincoln in 1861, as he led him to the podium where he would be inaugurated as US president.

Meacham, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer and professor at Vanderbilt University, is the author of the new book And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle At noon on Monday ...

He’ll also be about a 40-minute drive southeast on Route 283 from Wheatland, the former home of President James Buchanan ... of Unrest,” tracks Abraham Lincoln, Buchanan and other key ...

A new discovery sheds light on how Abraham Lincoln made it to the White ... protesting Lecompton and the actions of President James Buchanan. This, along with a similar program from a rally ...