Work on the Lincoln-Douglas Debate Museum at the Coles County Fairgrounds is nearing completion, but a lot still needs to be ...

In 1858, after winning the Republican nomination for the Senate against incumbent Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln gave a ...

This story about high school speech and debate was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news ...

Lincoln County Commissioner Douglas Putnam apologized last night for a comment he made during a commission meeting a month ago. The commission was discussing the cost of a lease. Putnam said he had a ...

Third book in planned five-part series from local author Jan Jacobi, “Lincoln and Douglas” deals with Lincoln's historic debates with rival Stephen A. Douglas.

WASHINGTON, June 9, 1860. GENTLEMEN: I have received by express one dozen copies of your publication of the joint debate between Mr. LINCOLN and myself in 1858, sent by order of the Hon. Mr. COX ...