Abraham Lincoln, right, and Stephen Douglas are depicted debating at Knox College in Galesburg, Ill., in 1858 inside the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum in Springfield, Ill. Most everyone ...

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, George Buss, stepping onto ...

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 ...

McClelland opens with the 1858 Illinois senate race, in which upstart Lincoln sought to oust incumbent Douglas. He sees the politics of Illinois as a microcosm of those of the nation. The famous ...

There was even a movement to remove Douglas’s statue from atop his tomb on 35 th Street. In researching my new book, Chorus of the Union: How Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas Set Aside Their ...

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 ...

Chances are you’ve heard of the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858. The series of debates between Abraham Lincoln and U.S. Senator Stephen Douglas launched Lincoln into national prominence ...

“Abraham Lincoln: His Life in Print” is on view ... John C. Breckinridge, Stephen A. Douglas and John Bell. The exhibition features a variety of printed materials from Lincoln’s presidential ...

Journalist Lee debuts with a potent exploration of what it means to be Indigenous, beginning with his own childhood spent summering on Martha’s Vineyard, the Wampanoag homeland, Continue reading ...