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Stephen A. Douglas

Stephen A. Douglas (1913–1861) was the Democratic Illinois senator best known for his debates against Abraham Lincoln during the 1858 Senate race. Elected to the US House of Representatives in 1843 and to the US Senate in 1846, Douglas was a national expansionist who supported the annexation of Texas in 1845 and the subsequent Mexican-American War. Following that war, Douglas helped pass the Compromise of 1850. Supporting popular sovereignty, Douglas was also a key figure in the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854. In 1858, Douglas...

Lincoln-Douglas, The Sequel (1860 Campaign) (Library of Congress Prints and Phot

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Lincoln, Douglas, and Their Historic Debates

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The Lincoln-Douglas debates were a series of seven joint discussions between Abraham Lincoln, a Republican, and Stephen A. Douglas, a Democrat, held during the summer and fall of 1858 in Illinois. Lincoln and Douglas had been debating each other for more than twenty years before their famous contest for the U.S. Senate in 1858. They were...

Lithograph of the Emancipation Proclamation, designed by a 14-year-old Californi

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Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation

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Abraham Lincoln's views on slavery and its abolition were clearly expressed in speeches and action throughout his political career. This online exhibition, based on a document booklet of the same title produced in partnership with President Lincoln's Cottage at the Soldiers' Home in Washington DC (...