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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.
While many people consider the first televised debate to be the one between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon in 1960, historians have argued that the first televised presidential debate actually ...
The Pacificus-Helviticus Debates of 1793–1794: Toward the Completion of the American Founding. Liberty Fund. ISBN 9780865976887. Morse, John (1876). The Life of Alexander Hamilton. Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 9780722291238. Lofgren, Charles A. (1972). "War-Making Under the Constitution: The Original Understanding". The Yale Law Journal.
Pacificus-Helvidius Debates; Panalo; Participation of Ukrainians in the suppression of the Warsaw Uprising; Porter–MacKenzie debate; Pre-Māori settlement of New Zealand theories; Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935
The fate of one of the major parties and the broader political tendency for which it stands are together wrapped up in the answer to that question—or, rather, in being able to simply say the answer.
At one point in the debate, Carter accurately pointed out that Reagan had started his political career by opposing the creation of Medicare and therefore was unlikely to support the expanded ...
The Great Hippocampus Question was a 19th-century scientific controversy about the anatomy of ape and human uniqueness. The dispute between Thomas Henry Huxley and Richard Owen became central to the scientific debate on human evolution that followed Charles Darwin's publication of On the Origin of Species.
The Jewish question was a wide-ranging debate in 19th- and 20th-century Europe that pertained to the appropriate status and treatment of Jews. The debate, which was similar to other " national questions ", dealt with the civil, legal, national, and political status of Jews as a minority within society, particularly in Europe during the 18th ...