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Bookmark or Share- Wide Awakes: the Lincoln-era youth movement inspiring anti ...Wide Awakes: the Lincoln-era youth movement inspiring anti-Trump protests. In 1860, on the brink of civil war, caped young men with lanterns sought to safeguard democracy. Now, in a nation...
- The Wide Awakes - U.S. National Park ServiceThe Wide Awakes were a Republican political organization that was dedicated to electing Abraham Lincoln to the White House. What distinguished them from the other political clubs of the 19th century were several things: their youth, their effectiveness, and their uniforms (Grinspan, 2009).
- The Club of Cape-Wearing Activists Who Helped Elect Lincoln ...The untold story of the Wide Awakes, the young Americans who took up the torch for their antislavery cause and stirred the nation. When Abraham Lincoln campaigned in Hartford, Connecticut, in...
- The Lincoln Memorial ShrineLincoln’s Wide Awakes. Like never before, the 1860 presidential election inspired the enthusiasm and patriotism of young Americans. Spurred by an interest in the most important issues of the day—namely the enslavement of Black Americans and the threat of civil war—young men (and occasionally women) came together in northern cities to march in support of the Republican Party and its new ...
- Journal of American History - The Wide Awakes and Lincoln’s ...Militaristic clubs of Republican youths who stumped for Abraham Lincoln—known as the Wide Awakes—were prominent in the tumultuous 1860 presidential race.
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