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A U.S. post stamp, issued in 1958, commemorating the Lincoln and Douglas debates A May 1860 photo of Abraham Lincoln An 1859 photo of Stephen Douglas. The Lincoln–Douglas debates were a series of seven debates in 1858 between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican Party candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois, and incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate.
On August 21, 1858, the first of the Lincoln-Douglas debates was held in Ottawa's Washington Park. The site of the debate is marked by a large boulder affixed with a plaque. [6] The boulder was erected on August 21, 1908, by the Daughters of the American Revolution. [6] [13] The day of the debates 10,000 people flocked to Washington Square. [3]
The Bryant Cottage State Historic Site [1] is a simple four-room house located in Bement, Illinois in the U.S. state of Illinois.It was built in 1856 and is preserved by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources as an example of Piatt County, Illinois pioneer architecture and as a key historic site in the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates.
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 ...
On October 7, 1858, Old Main was the site of the fifth in the celebrated series of debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas, then both running for the United States Senate. The debate was conducted on a platform constructed in front of the building, which the debaters reached by climbing through its windows.
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.
A mural to the 1858 Lincoln–Douglas debates in Quincy Slavery was a major religious and social issue in Quincy's early years. The Illinois city's location, separated only by the Mississippi River from the slave state of Missouri, which was a hotbed of political controversy on the issue, made Quincy itself a hotbed of political controversy on ...
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.