Becoming Lincoln

The 1856 presidential election took place amid a backdrop of violence in Kansas and Congress. Abraham Lincoln threw himself into the fight for the Republican Party and free territories. Sources used:"1856 Democratic Party Platform," hosted on the University of California Santa Barbara's American Presidency Project.Blumenthal, Sidney: All The Powers of Earth. Simon and Schuster, 2019.Burlingame, Michael, Abraham Lincoln: A Life. (Vol. 1). The John Hopkins University Press, 1995.Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. 1953 Edition hosted by the University of Michigan.Davis, Rodney and Wilson, Douglas, ed. Herndon's Informants: Letters, Interviews, and Statements about Abraham Lincoln. University of Chicago Press, 1998. Davis, Rodney and Wilson, Douglas, ed. Herndon on Lincoln: Letters. Knox College Lincoln Studies Center, 2016.Donald, David Herbert, Lincoln: A Biography. Simon and Schuster, 1995.Donald, David Herbert, Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War. Alfred A. Knopf, 1960.Etcheson