Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! An introduction to the 1860 election is featured. Author and history professor Rachel Shelden talked about the issue of slavery at the time, the ...

The Lincoln-Douglas debates were brilliant. They represented a profound discourse on the nature of America and the principles of self-government — second only perhaps to the Federalist Papers.

In this lesson, students interrogate their own assumptions about Abraham Lincoln in order to arrive at a deeper understanding of who Lincoln was. They investigate primary source documents in order ...

Lincoln’s 1858 Senate campaign versus Stephen Douglas is best known for its historic series of debates. Douglas’s eye was on the White House, however, which meant that he had to keep Northern ...

Presidential debates are a modern television age creation. The nominees of the two major parties did not debate until 1960, when Republican Vice President Richard Nixon faced John Kennedy, the ...

Formats such as Policy Debate, Lincoln-Douglas Debate and Public Forum Debate require students to cite evidence in their arguments, which judges can examine by requiring debaters to provide ...

By the 5 th grade, students should have learned about the “Lincoln-Douglas” debates of 1858 in Illinois between incumbent Democratic Senator Stephen A. Douglas and Lincoln, his Republican challenger ...

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Monday told FOX News host Sean Hannity that Donald Trump should agree to whatever rules Kamala Harris wants for the debate because it will be rigged in her favor anyway. "I ...

When Joe Biden repeatedly stammered, slurred, babbled and stared off into space during the first 2024 presidential debate ... when compared to the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates in 1858 or ...

Some topics of study, according to the Wall Street Journal, will be the Lincoln-Douglas debates, the Federalist Papers, and the philosophies of rhetoricians like Aristotle and Montesquieu.

In this lesson, students interrogate their own assumptions about Abraham Lincoln in order to arrive at a deeper understanding of who Lincoln was. They investigate primary source documents in order ...

Presidential debates are a modern television age creation. The nominees of the two major parties did not debate until 1960, when Republican Vice President Richard Nixon faced John Kennedy, the ...