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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, George Buss, stepping onto the ...

The Lost Lincoln-Douglas Debate at the Trump Saloon shows the fake news media is totally unfair. And very rude. Credit: Wikicommons Historians have recently discovered the transcript of an eighth ...

JONESBORO, Ill. -- A Southern Illinois historic preservation group wants to raise $100,000 or more erect statues to commemorate the Lincoln-Douglas debate that occurred in Jonesboro on Sept. 15, 1858.

Fact 1: Vermont is the birthplace of 19th-century American statesman Stephen A. Douglas, who sprang from a childhood in Brandon to Congress as an illustrious senator from Illinois. Fact 2: The ...

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, and he ...

Introduction: From Lincoln and Douglas to Nixon and Kennedy -- The least man I ever saw -- Take care of your old Whigs -- A David greater than Goliath -- For God's sake, Linder, come up -- In the face ...

MARION, Ind. — Democratic rivals and Hillary Rodham Clinton turned up the rhetoric Saturday in their increasingly heated primary battle as she issued a new debate challenge and he complained of ...

CHARLESTON — There’s a little more time to order a coin set commemorating the Lincoln-Douglas debates, the sales of which will benefit a local celebration of the debates’ 150th anniversary. Karen ...

In your editorial “Vance Sells Trump Better Than Trump” (Oct. 3), you mention that you’d “like to hear moderators ask a question that showed they read something outside their mainstream media bubble.” ...