{"id":70,"date":"2020-01-13T10:08:17","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T15:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/lincoln-douglas-debates\/?page_id=70"},"modified":"2020-01-13T17:38:39","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T22:38:39","slug":"the-lincoln-douglas-debates","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/lincoln-douglas-debates\/home\/the-lincoln-douglas-debates\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lincoln Douglas Debates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>[UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:left\"><strong>Portrait of Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas at the time of their 1858 debates.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>[UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This historical look at Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas is geared toward a young adult audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Additional Exhibition Items:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865. &nbsp;<em>Political Debates between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas in the Celebrated Campaign of 1858, in Illinois<\/em>\u2026 Columbus: Follett, Foster and Co., 1860.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These seven debates on slavery were a preview of the issues that Lincoln would face in the 1860 Presidential campaign and are remembered for the eloquence of both men.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Munroe Crane.&nbsp;<em>Recollections of Lincoln and Douglas Forty Years Ago<\/em>. New York: Privately Printed 1899.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This first-hand account of the July 9, 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debate in Chicago provides a comprehensive look at the debate and surrounding events by an eyewitness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>John A. &nbsp;Logan. &nbsp;<em>The Great Conspiracy: Its Origin and History<\/em>. New York: A.R. Hart, 1886.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This comprehensive history of the background to and history of the Civil War includes a lengthy section devoted to the Lincoln-Douglas debates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM] Portrait of Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas at the time of their 1858 debates. [UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM] This historical look at Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas is geared toward a young adult audience. Additional Exhibition Items: Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865. &nbsp;Political Debates between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas in the Celebrated Campaign [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":68,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-exhibition.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-70","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/lincoln-douglas-debates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/lincoln-douglas-debates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/lincoln-douglas-debates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/lincoln-douglas-debates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/lincoln-douglas-debates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/lincoln-douglas-debates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/lincoln-douglas-debates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70\/revisions\/91"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/lincoln-douglas-debates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/lincoln-douglas-debates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}