An advocate of the Union and a believer in manifest destiny, Stephen A. Douglas – called "the Little Giant" because he was short and stocky but had great speech skills – was on the Supreme Court, the House of Representatives, and the Senate. He sought to ease tension between the Nor...
Stephen Douglas was born into a well-educated New England family, though Stephen's life was changed profoundly when his father, a doctor, died suddenly when Stephen was two months old. As a teenager Stephen was apprenticed to a cabinetmaker so he would learn a trade, and he hated the work...
Douglas died too soon to make clear to a passion-stirred world that he was as warmly attached to the Union, as intensely loyal, as devotedly patriotic, as Lincoln himself. The grave questions arising from the War, which disturbed our politics for twenty years, the great economic questions ...
Lincoln however met a tough challenge from Southern candidate Stephen Douglas of the Democratic Party. The Day Abraham Lincoln Died.. Both speakers discuss "Negroes," not a polite term anymore though it was then, and Stephen Douglas enjoys playing to the audience's passions by occasionally unloadi...
Dr. Douglas died suddenly of apoplexy in July, 1813; it is said that he held the infant Stephen in his arms when he was stricken. His widow made her home with a bachelor brother on a farm near Brandon, and the boy's early years were passed in an environment familiar to readers...
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Guy ClarkandJerry Douglas, among many others. Stevie befriended popular Austin singerLeannAtherton, and enjoyed hanging out and playing at her annualSouth Austin Barn Dances, a hip, laid-back alternative to the intense South By Southwest Music Conference, held every March in downtown Austin. At ...
But he was also a hoopy frood who really knew where his towel was.SEE ALSO: 5 things I'm glad I learned from Stephen Hawking In other words, Hawking was a big fan of Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- the hilarious five-book "trilogy" and movie that began life as...