Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Lincoln Collection

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Lincoln-Douglas Debates [Revised 11/7/10]

Editions of the Debates

Angle, Paul M., ed. Created Equal? The Complete Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958.

Basler, Roy P., ed., Marion Dolores Pratt and Lloyd A. Dunlap, asst. eds. The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, Vol.3. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1953.

Davis, Rodney O. and Wilson, Douglas L., eds., The Lincoln-Douglas Debates: Lincoln Studies Center Edition. Urbana, Ill.: Knox College Lincoln Studies Center and the University of Illinois Press, 2008.

Holzer, Harold, ed. The Lincoln-Douglas Debates: The First Complete, Unexpurgated Text. New York: HarperCollins, 1993.

Johannsen, Robert W., ed. The Lincoln-Douglas Debates. New York: Oxford University Press, 1965.

Books and Pamphlets

Baldino, Georgiann. Following Lincoln as He Followed Douglas: Retracing Their Debates (Naperville, Ill.: Pearl Editions, LLC Production, 2007).

Chadwick, Bruce. 1858: Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant and the War they Failed to See (Sourcebooks, Inc., 2008).

Dennis, Frank L. The Lincoln-Douglas Debates (New York: Mason & Libscomb, 1974).

Darrel Dexter, A Trot Down to Egypt: The Lincoln-Douglas Debate in Jonesboro, Illinois (Jonesboro Lincoln-Douglas Debate Sesquicentennial Committee, 2008).

Fehrenbacher, Don E. Prelude to Greatness: Lincoln in the 1850’s (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1962) (particularly chapters 3-6).

Good, Timothy S. Lincoln-Douglas Debates and the Making of a President (MacFarland, 2007).

Guelzo, Allen C. Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates that Defined America (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008).

Heckman, Richard Allen. Lincoln vs. Douglas: The Great Debates Campaign (Washington, D.C.: Public Affairs Press, 1967).

Jaffa, Harry V. Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1959).

Lincoln-Douglas Society, Freeport, Illinois. Freeport’s Lincoln. (Freeport, Ill.: W. T. Rawleigh, 1930).

Morris, Roy Jr. The Long Pursuit: Abraham Lincoln’s Thirty-Year Struggle with Stephen Douglas for the Heart and Soul of America (New York: Collins, 2008).

Zarefsky, David. Lincoln, Douglas and Slavery: In the Crucible of Public Debate (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1990).

Dissertations

Giertz, John Bruce. “The Lincoln-Douglas Campaign of 1858: A Constitutive Rhetorical Analysis” (Ph.D. dissertation, Regent University, 2004). Not in our library

Heckman, Richard Allen. “The Douglas-Lincoln Campaign of 1858” (Ph.D. dissertation, Indiana University, 1960). Articles

Bauer, Marvin G. “Persuasive Methods in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates,” Quarterly Journal of Speech, 13 (February 1927): 29-39.

Beveridge, John W. “Lincoln’s Views on Slavery and Blacks as Expressed in the Debates with Stephen A. Douglas,” Lincoln Herald, 83 (Winter 1981): 791-800.

Bradford, M. E. “Dividing the House: The Gnosticism of Lincoln’s Political Rhetoric,” Modern Age, 23 (Winter 1979): 10-24.

Coleman, Charles H. “The Charleston Debate,” in Abraham Lincoln and Coles County, Illinois (New Brunswick, N.J.: Scarecrow, 1955): 173-89.

Collins, Bruce W. “The Lincoln-Douglas Contest of 1858 and Illinois Electorate,” Journal of American Studies, 20 (1986): 391-420.

Fehrenbacher, Don E. “Lincoln, Douglas, and the ‘Freeport Question,’” American Historical Review, 66 (April 1961): 599-617.

_____. “The Nomination of Abraham Lincoln in 1858,” Abraham Lincoln Quarterly, 6 (March 1950): 24-36.

_____. “The Origins and Purpose of Lincoln’s ‘House Divided’ Speech,” Mississippi Valley Historical Review, 46 (March 1960): 615-43.

Heckman, Richard Allen. “The Lincoln-Douglas Debates: A Case Study in ‘Stump Speaking,’” Civil War History, 12 (March 1966): 54-66.

Hill, Frederick Trevor. “Lincoln-Douglas Debates Fifty Years After: A New Account of the Forensic ‘Seven Days’ Battle’,” The Century Magazine 77 (November 1908): 3-19 Periodicals Vertical File

Horner, Harlan Hoyt. “The Substance of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates: Part I,” Lincoln Herald, 63 (Summer 1961): 89-98.

_____. “The Substance of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates: Part II,” Lincoln Herald, 63 (Fall 1961): 139-49.

Jaffa, Harry V. “Value Consensus’ in Democracy: The Issue in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates,” American Political Science Review, 52 (September 1958): 745-53.

Johannsen, Robert W. “The Lincoln-Douglas Campaign of 1858: Background and Perspective,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 73 (Winter 1980): 242-62.

Krug, Mark M. “Lyman Trumbull and the Real Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 57 (Winter 1964): 380-96.

Leff, Michael C. “Rhetorical Timing in Lincoln’s ‘House Divided’ Speech,” (The Van Zelst Lecture in Communication delivered at Northwestern University, May 19, 1983).

Monaghan, Jay. “The Lincoln-Douglas Debates,” Lincoln Herald, 45 (June 1943): 2-11.

Peck, Graham A. “New Records of the Lincoln-Douglas Debate at the 1854 Illinois State Fair: The Missouri Republican and Missouri Democrat Report from Springfield.” Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association, 30:2 (Summer 2009), 25-80.

Satz, Ronald N. “The African Slave Trade and Lincoln’s Campaign of 1858,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 65 (Autumn 1972): 269-79.

Simon, John Y. “Union County in 1858 and the Lincoln-Douglas Debates,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 65 (Autumn 1969): 267-92.