A volunteer searching the archives of the American Baptist in Massachusetts has found a nearly 180-year-old document shedding ...

In 1860, a congressional resolution authorized creation of the United States Government Printing Office, which opened the following year.

DALTON, Ga. (AP) — Steve Bannon took the stage Friday night at the Georgia Republican Convention to say it’s too early to be talking about 2026.

Bet you didn’t know that. But maybe you should. For in a city well known for holding political conventions, perhaps none stands more consequential than the 1860 Republican Convention.

"The Republican Party of the State of Virginia, called together to send delegates to the National Convention, which meets in Chicago on the 16th of this month, having assembled today in the City ...

In the election of 1860, Republican Abraham Lincoln defeated Illinois Senator Stephen Douglas of the Democratic Party, Vice President and Southern Democratic Party candidate John Breckinridge, and ...

Gov. JB Pritzker on August 20 said he'd be up for a 2-peat: back-to-back conventions. “I’m with him,” Christy George, the executive director of the Chicago DNC’s Host Committee said in an ...

Either way, convention season will continue to both offend and excite those of us who follow politics closely as we consider the past, present and future of these critical events.

In 1860, on the cusp of the Civil War, the Republican National Convention in Chicago not only took a chance on a one-term congressman named Abraham Lincoln, but introduced the nation to one of the ...

The temporary building near Lake and Wabash was built for the Republican National Convention in 1860. "The Wigwam was built in about five, six weeks for about $5,000 to $7,000." ...

And nobody’s expecting nail-biting suspense at this one; this is not the 1860 Republican convention where Abraham Lincoln came from behind to win the nomination. But this convention is poised to ...