JONESBORO, Ill. (KFVS) - The Heartland is steeped in history, and one moment that occurred almost exactly 167 years ago serves as a prime example. In 1858, Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas engaged ...

GRAND FORKS -- I would like to comment on William Grimes' review of Allen Guelzo's book, "Lincoln and Douglas" (Page D5, April 13). The review tries to debunk the "myth" that the debates were ...

Almost to the day of the 50th anniversary of the Lincoln-Douglas Debate in Quincy, the committee charged with planning a celebration was itself embroiled in a controversy. The dispute threatened the ...

QUINCY — The Lincoln-Douglas Debate Interpretive Center reopens Friday night with a new way of telling its story. Advisory board members oversaw an 18-month, $80,000 project adding state-of-the-art ...

Republican frontrunner Newt Gingrich and long-shot Jon Huntsman say they’ll hold a “Lincoln-Douglas” debate in New Hampshire on Monday. So how will it be different from the usual debates? During the ...

Students at three St. Vrain Valley high schools won first place in the recent state Speech and Debate tournament, held over two days in Colorado Springs. At Longmont High, Greta Wedel and Ben Howard ...

correctionA previous version of this story said the bill had been withdrawn. It hasn't. This version has been corrected. Of all the paragraphs in a bill to ban “divisive concepts” from being taught in ...

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 ...

Wren Williams, a Republican in Virginia’s House of Delegates, has proposed a bill that would regulate and standardize high school-level social studies curriculum in the state. Online, critics quickly ...

CORRECTION: An earlier version misstated when Delegate Wren Williams took office. Williams took office on Wednesday. A new measure aimed at eliminating critical race theory in Virginia schools ...