Greetings fellow historians and welcome back to This Week in History! This week is loaded with riveting events, so let’s jump in! On Nov. 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln was elected as the 16th president of ...

On November 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States -- an event that outraged southern states. The Republican party had run on an anti-slavery platform, and many ...

Nov. 6 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1860, Republican Abraham Lincoln was elected 16th president of the United States. In 1861, Jefferson Davis was elected president of the Confederate ...

Abraham Lincoln of Illinois was elected President of the United States of America on November 6, 1860, for a four-year term. One year later, on November 6, 1861, Jefferson Davis of Mississippi was … ...

In the November 6, 1860 general election, a country lawyer who had until fairly recently been a relatively little-known figure won a four-way national presidential race running on an anti-Slavery ...