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In Freeport, Illinois, just beyond the somnolent downtown, a small park near the Pecatonica River is wedged next to the public library. In the mid-19th century, however, land along the shore stretched ...

The Lost Lincoln-Douglas Debate at the Trump Saloon shows the fake news media is totally unfair. And very rude. Credit: Wikicommons Historians have recently discovered the transcript of an eighth ...

“Right Makes Might: The Lincoln-Douglas Debates” is a timely documentary now streaming at Fox Nation that all Americans should watch. Narrated by Lincoln historian Allen Guelzo, it features noted ...

JONESBORO, Ill. -- A Southern Illinois historic preservation group wants to raise $100,000 or more erect statues to commemorate the Lincoln-Douglas debate that occurred in Jonesboro on Sept. 15, 1858.

ANAC copy 39088001315837 from the Daniel Boorstin American Civilization Collection. Contents pt. I. Introductory. 1958: The crisis in historical judgment ; 1858: Lincoln versus Douglas ; The ...

QUINCY — The next History Happy Hour hosted by the Lincoln-Douglas Debate Museum, 128 N. Fifth St. in Quincy, will be held at 5:30 p.m. on June 19. Dr. Steve Belko from John Wood Community College ...

On Aug. 21, 1858, two of the most ill-matched political candidates in the nation walked onto a hastily built platform in northern Illinois and created a legend. One of them was a second-tier ...