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The Lincoln–Douglas Debates of 1858; 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 ...
The 1994 reenactments of the Lincoln–Douglas Debates took place between August 20 and October 15, 1994, and were facilitated and aired by C-SPAN.They featured historical reenactors presenting, in their entireties, the series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas that took place during the 1858 U.S. Senate campaign in Illinois.
Lincoln–Douglas debate (commonly abbreviated as LD Debate, or simply LD) is a type of one-on-one competitive debate practiced mainly in the United States at the high school level. It is sometimes also called values debate because the format traditionally places a heavy emphasis on logic , ethical values , and philosophy . [ 1 ]
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.
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 ...
The series of seven debates in 1858 between Abraham Lincoln and Senator Stephen A. Douglas for U.S. Senate were true, face-to-face debates, with no moderator; the candidates took it in turns to open each debate with a one-hour speech, then the other candidate had an hour and a half to rebut, and finally the first candidate closed the debate with a half-hour response.
— Zoya Khan — Octofinals, Lincoln Douglas Debate — Abdullah Khan — State Participant, Lincoln Douglas Debate — Madisen Laird — 4th (4th, 4A), Extemporaneous Speaking
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.