Lincoln-Douglas Ottawa Debate Preview
Historians, participants, and spectators talked about the significance of the debates, especially the first debate in Ottawa, Illinois. Telephone lines were also opened for viewer comments. …
1,657 viewsHistorians, participants, and spectators talked about the significance of the debates, especially the first debate in Ottawa, Illinois. Telephone lines were also opened for viewer comments. …
1,657 viewsHarold Holzer, Civil War historian, discussed the publication which he edited, entitled "The Lincoln-Douglas Debates: The First Complete and Unexpurgated Text", published by Harper Collins P…
2,008 viewsC-SPAN’s Washington Journal examined recent political events through reviews of newspapers, interviews, and viewer comments. In the first segment, The Hotline’s Robert Balkin talked about cu…
126 viewsThree scholars spoke about the importance of the Lincoln-Douglas debates in a preview of the reenactments that were to come.
274 viewsProfessors David Zarefsky and Edna Medford spoke about the history of the Lincoln-Douglas debates and slavery in the U.S. during the third in a series of Lincoln-Douglas debate previews.
183 viewsHarold Holzer, who is the Chief Communications Officer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and author of several books on President Lincoln, discussed controversy over authenticity of early ph…
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