gives background on the other candidates, and discusses the liberations at the party conventions. abe lincoln won the presidency over three other candidates, with just under 40% of the popular vote. this class is about an hour and 15 minutes. all right, so we have lincolns ancestors over here. we ve got them born, we ve got them moved around in elected office. we ve got them married. it s time to elect him president. today we are going to look at the election of 1860. using the term, everybody second choice, at the national convention that year in 1860, a lincoln supporter send a wire that said, i think he s going to win the nomination. he is the second choice of everybody. well, lincoln himself had a line . my name is new in the field and i suppose i am not the first choice of a very great many. our policy then is to give no offense to others, lead them to come to us, if they should be compelled to give up their first love. i know, it kind of gets you right there, giving u
over here and we got them married and it is time to elect him president and today we re going to look at the election of 1860 and using the term of everybody s second choice at the national convention a lincoln supporter sent a wire that said i think he s going to win the nomination and he is the second choice of everybody. well he said my name is new in the field and i suppose i m not the first choice of a great many. our policy is to leave them in a mood to come to us if they are compelled to give up their first love. i know, it kind of gets you right there. giving up your first love. so the themes we will talk about and i m going to explain why there is certainly a book cover in the upper corner, but, first of all, republicans showed they were not the week party. they actually ran a very well organized campaign. and at the same time there is an old saying in politics that if your opponent is imploding, don t do anything to stop him. in this case there were some implosions
road to civil war. joanne freeman, you re going to hate this opening question. trace the arc of our nations history. from 1783 to 1861, the political history of our nation. wow, i will use the word hate. back is a little daunting. trace the art. i m to do the historian thing and speak generally. i guess it would save your looking an american in politics, from the beginning straight through, we could even go past the civil war, you re talking about paradoxes and conflict and prop. the period that i tend to focus on is the early part of the arc, and it s the improvisational nature of the the really fascinates more than anything else. the nation was founded in a world of monarchy. the united states was a republic. what the means was was not clear at the moment and people knew the they were trying to do something the wasn t act. were not going to be creating monetary and the president isn t going to be a king but beyond the there was open ground. there s a lot of improv in thos
the second choice of everybody. well he said my name is new in the field and i suppose i m not the first choice of a great many. our policy is to leave them in a mood to come to us if they are compelled to give up their first love. i know, it kind of gets you right there. giving up your first love. so the themes we will talk about and i m going to explain why there is certainly a book cover in the upper corner, but, first of all, republicans showed they were not the week party. they actually ran a very well organized campaign. and at the same time there is an old saying in politics that if your opponent is imploding, don t do anything to stop him. in this case there were some implosions on the part of the other parties involved. and we will get to those as we go along. we will do a little bit of the background leading up to the 1860 election and we will talk more about why slavery was a key issue both leading up to the election and then in the out come. this next one might ma
lincoln supporter sent a wire that said i think he s going to win the nomination and he is the second choice of everybody. well he said my name is new in the field and i suppose i m not the first choice of a great many. our policy is to leave them in a mood to come to us if they are compelled to give up their first love. i know, it kind of gets you right there. giving up your first love. so the themes we will talk about and i m going to explain why there is certainly a book cover in the upper corner, but, first of all, republicans showed they were not the week party. they actually ran a very well organized campaign. and at the same time there is an old saying in politics that if your opponent is imploding, don t do anything to stop him. in this case there were some implosions on the part of the other parties involved. and we will get to those as we go along. we will do a little bit of the background leading up to the 1860 election and we will talk more about why slavery was a