Stephen Douglas is not too popular in Illinois these days. Last year, the city added an ‘s’ to Douglass Park on the West Side, renaming it after abolitionist Frederick Douglass and his wife, Anna.

I quizzed two Douglas County officials this week — one elected, one a longtime, loyal public servant — to see whether they knew whose 200th birthday occurred Tuesday.

A statue of Stephen A. Douglas, a 19th century senator from Illinois who owned slaves and was a longtime nemesis of Abraham Lincoln, has been moved from the state Capitol’s lawn into storage, ...

Stephen A. Douglas has always been a controversial politician. He was the most controversial politician of the 1850s, when he authored the Kansas-Nebraska Act, ...

U.S. congressman, senator and presidential candidate Stephen A. Douglas was born April 23, 1813, in Brandon, Vermont.

In Ottawa, the site of his first debate with Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln made the grand entrance. On this hot, high summer Saturday, 15,000 spectators crowded the wooden sidewalks of Ottawa ...

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Douglas, Stephen A., 1912- (World War II soldier) Names Aviation Engineer Battalion. Place Oceania Topic Wit and humor World War, 1939-1945 -- Art and the war Postcards Provenance This collection was ...