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 ...

In our own day, as two dramatically different candidates for president clash across an ideological divide, the oratorical odyssey of Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas may offer more than a ...

Mary Todd Lincoln, hysterical with grief, was kept away. Lincoln never regained consciousness and was pronounced dead just past 7:22 a.m. on April 15, 1865.

The bold stage show '3 Summers of Lincoln' — starring Ivan Hernandez, Quentin Earl Darrington, Carmen Cusack and Saycon Sengbloh — will play at La Jolla Playhouse through March 30.

Abraham Lincoln spent his birthday in Cincinnati on Feb. 12, 1861, on his way from Springfield, Illinois, to the nation’s capital for his inauguration.

In the election of 1860, Republican Abraham Lincoln defeated Illinois Senator Stephen Douglas of the Democratic Party, Vice President and Southern Democratic Party candidate John Breckinridge, and ...

In rebuttal, we will hear from the eminent lawyer, former U.S. Representative Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for the United States Senate in this year of Our Lord 1858. Mr.

Washington Square, Ottawa, Illinois, Aug. 21, 1858 In Ottawa, the site of his first debate with Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln made the grand entrance.

I will point out that in the period just before the winds of war swept everything before them, Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas engaged in a campaign for Senate in Illinois regarded by historians ...

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).

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 ...