
Key events in the run-up to the U.S. election of 1860 that would ultimately lead a young nation to a bloody Civil War.

Sharing the story of Massachusetts Senator Charles Summer, who was beaten on the floor of the US Senate before becoming a leading voice for the abolition of slavery.

In a highly disputed four-way race, this is how Abraham Lincoln, a little-known political upstart from Illinois, strategized to win the presidency in a heavily contested election.

The story of editors like Charles Pryor of the Dallas Herald and James Gordon Bennett of the New York Herald who helped drive the nation toward war.