Lincoln-Douglas Ottawa Debate Preview
Historians, participants, and spectators talked about the significance of the debates, especially the first debate in Ot…
Recreation of Lincoln discussing the Dred Scott decision during the Lincoln-Douglas debate in Ottawa
Historians, participants, and spectators talked about the significance of the debates, especially the first debate in Ot…
In the Illinois State House on June 17, 1858, former Representative Abraham Lincoln accepted the Republican nomination a…
Stephen A. Douglas, the incumbent senator, and Abraham Lincoln, a former congressman and current attorney, met for the l…
Professors Howard Lindsey, of DePaul University and Richard Current of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, t…