The Wide Awakes started as a small group of young men demonstrating during the 1860 election and became a mass movement of working-class Americans marching to end slavery.

Throughout the 1860 election, the Wide Awakes held mass rallies, marches and demonstrations to combat slave power. Appealing to a generation disillusioned by the political instability of the 1850s ...

The denizens of Broadway were startled last evening by the sudden appearance of a Wide-Awake Torchlight Procession. Quiet people possibly hoped that the monster demonstration of Tuesday night was ...

An impromptu procession of Wide-Awakes from the Fourth, Ninth, Tenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth and other Wards -- in all about 1,000 men -- formed in the vicinity of Cooper Institute on Thursday ...

Fighting for Lincoln: The Wide Awakes" examines the movement instrumental in electing Abraham Lincoln in 1860. The Wide Awakes were a Republican para-military organization distinguished from other ...

The resolution declared Meucci’s “teletrofono”, demonstrated in New York in 1860, made him the inventor ... and Redbull so ...

West Belfast hip-hop trio Kneecap will headline next year's Wide Awake festival. The Irish language-speaking rap group's bill ...

See the full list of names so far here: Tickets for next year’s Wide Awake are on general sale now – you can buy yours here. The 2025 instalment promises seven live music stages, more than 70 ...

Wide Awake Festival have announced the first wave of acts for its 2025 edition, taking place in Brockwell Park on 23 May. Headliners Kneecap will be joined by Irish singer-songwriter CMAT, Daniel ...

Ghanaians are wide awake now, and when they see the vision of Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, they are excited," the Minister stated.