Jessa Crispin (Lincoln Center, Kansas, 47) became known in Spain for her controversial feminist manifesto Por qué no soy feminista (Why I am not a feminist, Lince, 2017), based on the idea that the ...

The Lincoln-Douglas debates are among the most important events in United States history. The seven debates were conducted throughout Illinois in the summer and fall of 1858. Not only significant ...

The 1844 Kane County courthouse, which later became the site for Geneva's City Hall, at the corner of First and James streets. Recently discovered documents for the cornerstone – dated Dec. 7, 1912 – ...

The National Park Service does not list Geneva among the seven 1858 debate stops in Illinois while Lincoln was challenging incumbent Douglas for the U.S. Senate in 1858.

It led to the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates in 1858 when the two contended for a U.S. Senate seat. Douglas won. That does not contradict Lincoln’s assertion that the "people" only voted against him ...

Students will be introduced to materials like the Federalist Papers, the Lincoln-Douglas debates, and philosophical predecessors including Aristotle and Montesquieu.

Word, skillfully written, can change minds. Consider Lincoln and Douglas, a debate for a seat in the Senate, and the rest is history. So oratory matters. The ability to persuade, through words ...

It’s not a Lincoln-Douglas debate. It’s Coke v. Pepsi. Ford v. Chevy. McDonalds v. Burger King. Apple v. Microsoft. Google v. Meta. Political reporting has never quite caught up.

We have slid a thousand miles from the Lincoln-Douglas debates, when two literate men could compete with elegant words and powerful arguments, into this rumpus over golf scores.

If your essay ends up being 645, 643, or 649 words, that’s fine, but if your essay is less than 600 words, you're underselling yourself, and leaving some aspect of your personality unexplored.