...loss of an election, not the least of which was Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln ran for an Illinois Senate seat in 1854, lost to Stephen Douglas, "the Little Giant," and retired to his law offices afterward. All the nattering Harrops of his day said he was finished...
...opinions almost universally held in antebellum America. The evidence for this lies ready at hand. In his famous debates with Stephen Douglas, Lincoln said that there was a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid...
...do — but in the end, who really cares what the Puritans believed, or what the main issue debated by Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas was regarding slavery when all were important questions, or what statement Socrates, Plato, Aristotle and Aquinas would...
...in Bement reached an agreement with the state last week to remain open past Nov. 30. The site, where Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas planned their debates 150 years ago, was among 14 state historic sites targeted for closure by the governor because of...
...and musicals in Quincy, IL. Quincy was the site of one of the famous 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates in which Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas, candidates for the Illinois seat in the U.S. Senate, spoke on the day's issues. Sam Hepler will play Lincoln for Muddy...
...not yet 100 years old. When I was a boy, Grandmother Hanley told me that when she was a young girl Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas came to their town of Freeport, Ill., to debate. Her father hoisted her up on his shoulder so she could see the two men ride...
...a brigadier general of volunteers. In 1852 the Democratic party was split into hostile factions led by William L. Marcy, Stephen A. Douglas, James Buchanan, and Lewis Cass, none of whom could muster sufficient strength to secure the presidential nomination....
... Would like to see how stupid they (the politicians) are. I scored 90.91% (30/33). One of them I was braindead and should have gotten correct, two I was guessing on. Regardless, that is still an A, and roughly twice what my elected representatives scored i...
...It would have been inconceivable, for example, for Lincoln to offer a cabinet appointment to his Democratic opponent, Stephen Douglas. In the months after his election, Lincoln tried to find a Southerner as a symbol of national unity. But he drew sharp limits....
...as many artifacts as a historical society museum might have." The museum is being created as part of the restoration of the Stephen A. Douglas birthplace at the corner of Routes 7 and 73. The historical site will also include a visitor's center and a public...