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 ...

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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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

For months, Newt Gingrich has floated the same challenge to President Obama that underdogs have hurled at their political rivals for more than a century: Let's debate. And not just once or twice ...

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.

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 ...

QUINCY — When Stephen A. Douglas died in 1861, President Abraham Lincoln wept and the nation mourned, but the reputation of the man honored in his own day now is ...

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 ...

Our Reviewer: David Marshall has been a high school American history teacher in the Miami-Dade School district for more than three decades. A life-long Civil War enthusiast, David is president of the ...