It was here, on August 27, 1858, that U.S. senatorial candidates Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas waged a war of words. "Imagine that you're there," says my guide, George Buss, stepping onto ...

At the site of the Lincoln Douglas debate, he offered what he called "dad advice" to the students, telling them not to ...

Just two candidates, head to head -- Lincoln-Douglas style. As a Lincoln historian, I've studied the famous meetings between challenger Abraham Lincoln and incumbent Stephen A. Douglas that set ...

The Lincoln-Douglas Debate Museum, located at 128 N. 5th Street in downtown Quincy, has announced the History Happy Hour ...

That inspired a railroad lawyer and former one-term congressman named Abraham Lincoln to get back into politics. He ran for Senate against Douglas in 1858, lost, then defeated him in the ...