{"id":31,"date":"2008-04-14T13:19:15","date_gmt":"2008-04-14T18:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/blog\/?p=31"},"modified":"2010-06-16T11:16:15","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T16:16:15","slug":"the-lincoln-douglas-debates-unplugged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2008\/04\/14\/the-lincoln-douglas-debates-unplugged\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lincoln-Douglas Debates Unplugged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2008\/06\/slate.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-103\" title=\"slate\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2008\/06\/slate.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2188416\/\" target=\"_blank\">this book review<\/a> published on Slate.com, historian David Greenberg examines a new book on the Lincoln-Douglas debates, <em>Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates That Defined America<\/em> written by Allen C. Guelzo of Gettysburg College.  With campaigning for the upcoming presidential election in full swing, debates will surely play a big role in swaying public opinion toward or away from a particular candidate.  With that in mind, it might be an interesting time to reexamine the Lincoln-Douglas debates from a new perspective.  According to Greenberg, Guelzo&#8217;s book helps to demystify the significance of the debates and present a clearer picture of the divergent positions taken by the incumbent Senator Douglas and the up-and-coming Lincoln.  This might be a new piece of scholarship worth checking out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this book review published on Slate.com, historian David Greenberg examines a new book on the Lincoln-Douglas debates, Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates That Defined America written by Allen C. Guelzo of Gettysburg College. With campaigning for the upcoming presidential election in full swing, debates will surely play a big role in swaying public opinion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,83],"tags":[158],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antebellum-1840-1861","category-general-opinion","tag-campaigns-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2118,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions\/2118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}