U.S. congressman, senator and presidential candidate Stephen A. Douglas was born April 23, 1813, in Brandon, Vermont. Short in stature but influential in Congress, Douglas was nicknamed "The ...

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 ...

34 —Stephen A. Douglas What would a truly pro-slavery constitution look like? We don’t have to guess. Ardent defenders of slavery wrote just such a constitution for the breakaway Confederate ...

Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society (1908-1984), Vol. 16, No. 3/4, Life of Stephen Arnold Douglas (Oct., 1923 - Jan., 1924), pp. 274-673 (491 pages) ...