Although we regard the debates today as a head-to-head contest for votes, in fact neither Lincoln nor Douglas was on the ballot. U.S. senators were chosen by state legislatures, as they would be ...

Despite becoming a familiar name because of the debates, Lincoln lost the 1858 U.S. Senate election to Douglas, then went on to be elected president in 1860. People are also reading… ...

Chances are you’ve heard of the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858. The series of debates between Abraham Lincoln and U.S. Senator Stephen Douglas launched Lincoln into national prominence, ...

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.

It was, after all, chiefly thanks to Lincoln and not Douglas that the joint debates of 1858—prologue to a reversal of their respective fortunes in the presidential race of 1860—would become ...

The Rivalry (by Norman Corwin) recreates the fateful Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858. Douglas won the contest, in that he was re-elected Senator from Illinois, but the debates helped send Lincoln ...

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.

CHARLESTON, Ill. (AP) -- Nearly 150 years ago, Thomas Pendergast was one of thousands who listened to Abraham Lincoln debate Stephen Douglas in the race for the U.S. Senate seat ...

W hen, in 1858 Abraham Lincoln challenged Stephen Douglas to the famed Lincoln-Douglas debates, the Lincoln challenge was written in part by Charles L. Wilson, then editor of the Chicago Journal ...

Before his historic presidency and before the legendary Lincoln-Douglas debates that would define his political rise, Abraham Lincoln began his campaign for U.S. Senate with a ... It was 1858, and ...

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.