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Language: en
Pages: 227
Pages: 227
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-09-24 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
This thematic biography demonstrates how Stephen Douglas's path from a conflicted youth in Vermont to dim prospects in New York to overnight stardom in Illinois
Language: en
Pages: 349
Pages: 349
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-02-19 - Publisher: UNC Press Books
As the sectional crisis gripped the United States, the rancor increasingly spread to the halls of Congress. Preston Brooks's frenzied assault on Charles Sumner
Language: en
Pages: 1012
Pages: 1012
Type: BOOK - Published: 1973 - Publisher: University of Illinois Press
BIOG Johannsen's 1983 biography won the Francis Parkman Prize of the Society of American Historians. Though most know Douglas for his famous debates with Abraha
Language: en
Pages: 380
Pages: 380
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-04-23 - Publisher: McFarland
It didn't take long for freshman Congressman Stephen A. Douglas to see the truth of Senator Thomas Hart Benton's warning: slavery attached itself to every measu
Language: en
Pages: 244
Pages: 244
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
In this engaging new biography, James L. Huston explores the political life of Stephen A. Douglas and his definition and promotion of the ideal of democratic eq