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    The Wide Awakes were a youth organization and later a paramilitary organization cultivated by the Republican Party during the 1860 presidential election in the United States. Using popular social events, an ethos of competitive fraternity, and even promotional comic books, the organization introduced many to political participation and ...

  2. Wide Awake Club (often abbreviated to WAC) is a children's television series that was broadcast in the United Kingdom on the breakfast television channel TV-am between 1984 and 1989.

  3. Jon Grinspan, “Young Men for War”: The Wide Awakes and Lincoln’s 1860 Presidential Campaign Journal of American History, 96 (Sept. 2009), 357–378. 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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  4. Wide Awake: The Forgotten Force that Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War. A propulsive account of our history's most surprising, most consequential political club: the Wide Awake...

  5. Jun 7, 2024 · In St Louis, Wide Awakes sneaked in rifles and drilled secretly in breweries, while the Southern Democratic Minutemen evolved from a political club into a paramilitary militia.

  6. Wide Awake Club: With Tommy Boyd, Timmy Mallett, Joanna Fisher, Denise Pearson. A variety show for children featuring comedy sketches, team challenges, celebrity guests and competitions.

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  8. Mar 20, 2021 · Wide Awake Club Opening Credits. Who remembers waking up to the Wide Awake Club? The Saturday morning entertainment show started on the 13th October 1984 on ITV and ran until 1989...

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