2018 Winter Lecture Series - The Lincoln - Douglas Debates
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- Опубліковано 15 лип 2024
- In a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas in 1858, the state of slavery was at the epicenter of the Illinois Senate race that would catapult Lincoln onto the national scene and ultimately President of the United States.
Excellent. The best review of the debates that I've ever heard.
Excellent presentation.
Amazing presentation thank you so much
This is the way ...
True Debates are suppose to be done!!!
In order to Properly
Vett candidates !!!
And it should be the
Golden standard of
Debates formatts!!
Especially for the
Presidency of Today,
And into the Future, !!!
If you do a search for the debates on cspan you can see the complete reenactments on location at each debate site. They do 2 hrs of preview, all 3 hrs of debate and then hour and half to two of recap. Note these were done in 1994.
This was very well presented. I enjoyed the lecture tremendously. 😎
Great presentations! I love learning about military history, especially the Civil War. I wonder how the war would've gone had Lincoln accepted the Governorship of the Oregon Territory.
instaBlaster.
Best one of these lectures I have watched so far! (And I've seen a few!)
Great presentation
Interesting topic! Thanks for the new videos!
I'm starting to reread Allen Nevins wonderful 8 volume series starting with "The Ordeal of the Union" (book 1 1847-1852.) Books 3 and 4 are "The Emergence of Lincoln." I really love the history of the period 1850-1860 and really wish there were more videos about those years. I'm really happy to see this one on the Lincoln-Douglas debates.
My favorite source for info on this era. Mr Nevins work is a masterpiece!
Fantastic presentation!
I learned about Douglas’ stance on government (white man only)from this, and I have to wonder if the closing phrase of the Gettysburg Address wasn’t specifically crafted as the ultimate rebuttal to Douglas.
Very well delivered!
Good presentation
I see I already made short comments but I felt corked to say I learned a lot listening to it again. I’ve read about Douglas but never realized he owned slaves even though the plantation was managed by someone else. Much information added.
Great video
I usually prefer Matt Atkinson’s lectures, but this Ranger is quite good himself. 👍
What's the lecturers name?
My guess that this video will be banned in public schools all over the county. The Douglas quote from July 9, 1858 at 24:10 might make American history look bad.
1. Lincoln said the first political speech about the pro slavery mob killed abolitionist Elijah P Lovejoy in January 1837. that time! Funny but a free soil state Assembly (in Illinois) forbade this type debate earlier.
3. Lincoln was follower of the Kentuckian Henry Clay who fought in the border states for a step by step abolition during his political time.
4. Stephen Douglas inherited plantation with slaves in Mississippi after his first wife's death. so Stephen Douglas as a neutral in a debate with slavery in the center could be interesting. BTW Stephen Douglas as slave holder has not known too wide because the historians mentioned seldom!
My 2. point again: Lincoln and other 4 polticians were who voted agains the Assembly of Illinois to forbide any debate about slavery system! Funny but a free soil state Assembly (in Illinois) forbade this type debate that time.
Yes Lincoln was thinking of slavery system to be wrong from his childhood in Indiana! His family came from Kentucky from a slavery state, and he lived in Indiana near to the border of Kentucky later so he had some experience about this institute from his childhood. His wife came from Kentucky too.
58:12 Robert Todd Lincoln
Wow. He was... *_SO_* not his father. 😕
To be clear, I agree with most of what R.T. Lincoln said in that quote, and yet he made it so utterly banal and bland.
well done sir!
you had to motor through an awful lot of territory and
a not insubstantial number of ideas, and that task you accomplished...
it is telling, perhaps in a sad way, that a great number of the problems
touched upon in those debates 202 years ago, are still contentious
and continue to divide the country today
3:42 Wrong. Lincoln was a Very Successful Trial Lawyer, which gave him money and position, experience with the law and therefor legislation.