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Mr. Lincoln and Freedom: Lincoln–Douglas Debates Archived July 8, 2013, at the Wayback Machine; Abraham Lincoln: A Resource Guide from the Library of Congress; Free audio book of "Noted Speeches of Abraham Lincoln," including the Lincoln-Douglas Debates. Booknotes interview with Harold Holzer on The Lincoln-Douglas Debates, August 22, 1993 ...
The Freeport Doctrine was articulated by Stephen A. Douglas on August 27, 1858, in Freeport, Illinois, at the second of the Lincoln-Douglas debates.Former one-term U.S. Representative Abraham Lincoln was campaigning to take Douglas's U.S. Senate seat by strongly opposing all attempts to expand the geographic area in which slavery was permitted.
Stephen Arnold Douglas (né Douglass; April 23, 1813 – June 3, 1861) was an American politician and lawyer from Illinois.A U.S. Senator, he was one of two nominees of the badly split Democratic Party to run for president in the 1860 presidential election, which was won by Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln.
History professor William Urban takes a look back at the debate between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas in Monmouth in 1858.
History professor William Urban takes a look back at the debate between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas in Monmouth in 1858. Political debates spark trip down memory lane of Lincoln, Douglas ...
In a debate with Lincoln at Freeport, Illinois, Douglas expresses an opinion which becomes known as the "Freeport Doctrine". Lincoln asks whether the people of a territory could lawfully exclude slavery before the territory became a state. In effect, this question asks Douglas to reconcile popular sovereignty with the Dred Scott decision ...
Lincoln and Stephen Douglas had seven debates through the summer and fall of 1858, in different communities all around Illinois. They were held from 2 p.m. to about 5 p.m.
Pages in category "Stephen A. Douglas" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. ... Lincoln–Douglas debate format; The Lincoln–Douglas ...