Lincoln-Douglas debates

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1. A series of debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas in 1858, when both were campaigning for election to the United States Senate from Illinois. Much of the debating concerned slavery and its extension into territories such as Kansas. The debates transformed Lincoln into a national figure and led to his election to the presidency in 1860.

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Lincoln-Douglas debates

In the previous weeks, the candidates had barnstormed across District 14 in their own version of the Lincoln-Douglas debates — but even more bitter.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2024

Also sold at Saturday’s auction was a Lincoln-signed first edition of the Lincoln-Douglas debates, which fetched nearly $594,000.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 25, 2023

Consider the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates, in which Lincoln, as the anti-slavery Republican candidate for an Illinois seat in the U.S.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 24, 2022

Or, even better, that someone will build a time machine before my time on this planet is over and I can travel to 1858 and listen to the Lincoln-Douglas debates.

From New York Times ● Sep. 24, 2016

I heard one of the Lincoln-Douglas debates at Ottawa.

From Fifty Years of Public Service by Cullom, Shelby M.