It was here, on August 27, 1858, that U.S. senatorial candidates Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas waged a war of words. "Imagine that you're there," says my guide, George Buss, stepping onto ...

A tiny community of less than 2,000 residents, it nonetheless has some claim to fame. Stephen A. Douglas, future U.S. senator and 1860 presidential candidate of the Northern Democrats, moved to ...

Abraham Lincoln, right, and Stephen Douglas are depicted debating at Knox College in Galesburg, Ill., in 1858 inside the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum in Springfield, Ill. Most everyone ...