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 ...

A child stands in front of statues depicting Abraham Lincoln, left, and Stephen A. Douglas at Washington Park Thursday, Aug. 20, 2015, in Ottawa, Ill. The square park is where the first ...

Cynics love to groan about presidential debates. The historic 1960 encounters between Richard Nixon and John Kennedy, though now swathed in myth, gave rise to gripes that those political quiz shows ...

Though many Americans in the East thought of Illinois as the frontier in the 1850s, the 1858 Senate campaign of Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas elevated the state into the national spotlight.

Justin Folk will debut a new documentary ahead of the first presidential debate between President Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden examining the historic Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858, with ...