Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Wide Awakes were a series of clubs of mostly young men in their teens and early twenties, who organized parades throughout ...

After months spent sheltering in place, the art world was out in full force on Saturday, gathering in sites across New York and cities across the country for the Wide Awakes march. The activist event, ...

In the wake of the 2020 US presidential election, art-world activist collective the Wide Awakes remains dedicated to its collaborative pursuit of greater justice, democracy, and welfare for all. To ...

On October 3, 1860, a group of abolitionists called the Wide Awakes marched across northern cities to help elect Abraham Lincoln. Last year, confronted with our national state of injustice, cynicism, ...

If ever there was a chaotic election, it was 1860. The United States was walking the plank towards disunion, although they didn’t realize it at the time, and the political parties, well, let’s just ...

A Wide Awakes rally in October 1860 filled much of Lower Manhattan with marchers and spectators, and left the city stinking of burned torch oil.Credit...National Museum of American History, ...

Cole Tomas Allen, accused of attempting to attack the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, is under investigation for alleged ties to The Wide Awakes, a progressive activist network inspired by a Civil ...

You’ve heard it before: we are living in divided times. Disagreement is part of being a citizen of a democracy, but in today's indisputably hot political climate, young people have stepped up into ...