In Ottawa, the site of his first debate with Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln made the grand entrance. On this hot, high summer Saturday, 15,000 spectators crowded the wooden sidewalks of Ottawa ...

Lesson Plan: Historic Presidential Elections - 1860 - Abraham Lincoln vs Stephen Douglas vs John Breckinridge . Clip 1 Clip 2 Clip 3 Clip 4 Clip 5 Clip 6 Clip 7 Clip 8 Clip 9 Clip 10 Clip 11 Clip ...

Tablets of Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas adorn the east entrance of Old Main on the Knox College campus in Galesburg. The tablets were hung during a celebration honoring the 100th ...

The political rivalry between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas fades away as the Union’s future grows uncertain in this insightful account from historian McClelland (Young Mr. Obama).At the ...

It was here, on August 27, 1858, that U.S. senatorial candidates Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas waged a war of words. "Imagine that you're there," says my guide, ...

Lincoln and Stephen Douglas, Joining to Save the Union. McClelland, who has written extensively on American politics and cultural and social history, explores the relationship between these two giants ...

Abraham Lincoln vs. Stephen Douglas it was not. Thursday night’s debate between two of America’s best-known governors — Democrat Gavin Newsom of California and Florida Republican Ron ...

ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND SENATOR DOUGLAS. Share full article. Jan. 28, 1860. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from January 28, 1860, Page 1 Buy Reprints.

Lincoln served one term in the U.S. House as a Whig and then became deeply involved with the emerging Republican Party. In 1858, he ran against Stephen Douglas for a U.S. Senate seat and lost. Two ...

Abraham Lincoln made a stopover at Cincinnati on his way to his inauguration in 1861, ... Sen. Stephen Douglas. Lincoln’s visit was just as the nation was falling apart.

Before he was elected president, Abraham Lincoln visited the Montgomery County Courthouse in 1859. Lincoln, who had lost a bid for the U.S. Senate the year before to Stephen A. Douglas, arrived in ...