TAH.org’s last Saturday Webinar for 2018 took place on 1 December, and featured another Great American Debate: the famous ‘Lincoln-Douglas Debates’ of 1858. Our panel of scholars, with the assistance of great questions submitted by our live audience of teachers addressed the ideas and issues, rhetoric and reasoning, and immediate and long-term impact and meaning of these singular debates in American history.

Suggested Readings

• House Divided Speech, June 1858, Abraham Lincoln
• Homecoming Speech at Chicago, July 1858, Stephen A. Douglas
• The Lincoln-Douglas Debates: First Debate, 21 August 1858, Ottawa, IL